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Note ban to help us win polls, says Akhilesh Yadav
UP CM said that he would ask for votes on his image and work done by his government and not on caste issues.
Lucknow: UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has said that he is ready to go into elections on the strength of two “Ds” — development and demonetisation.
“These ‘D’ factors will work in Samajwadi Party’s favour in the upcoming elections which will see the demolition of caste and communal factors,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
Stressing that the family feud was no longer a factor and all issues had been relegated to the wings after demonetisation, Mr Yadav said, “That is a thing of past now. We are working together to win the elections. Issues have changed and post demonetisation nobody remembers that (family feud) anymore. All the other issues have been left behind and demonetisation has emerged as the key issue.”
The chief minister said that he would ask for votes on his image and work done by his government and not on caste issues. “We already had development on our side and now the BJP has given us demonetisation too. The work done by us in the past five years and the problems faced by the people due to demonetisation will dominate the elections and both will work to our favour,” he added.
Mr Yadav said that people had lost faith in the BJP as well as the BSP.
“The Modi government has done nothing for UP even though the state gave them the largest chunk of MPs. The Prime Minister, home minister and defence minister represent UP but the state has not benefited,” he alleged.
The chief minister said that people were also not interested in getting statues of elephants installed all around by voting for the BSP.
Asked about the talks of an alliance with the Congress, Mr Yadav said that the party president Mulayam Singh Yadav would take the final call on the issue but he felt that an alliance with the Congress will help in crushing the communal forces.
