“We are not disappointed.In politics, such results do come. Suppose, the BJP won by five lakh votes from Varanasi in Lok Sabha polls. This doesn’t mean that everyone is happy with the BJP which claims ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’. There are still a lot of people who are disappointed and whose hopes are shattered,” Yadav said.
The SP chief expressed hope that results will be different in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. However, he had a word of advice for the parties opposing the BJP.
“The fight is big. To fight a big party like BJP we will have to make a lot of preparations. We have to be under strict discipline and have to fight the strategy with which they (BJP) are getting majority. I hope results will be different in the Lok Sabha polls,” Yadav told reporters in Varanasi.
Akhilesh Yadav had a ugly spat with the Congress during the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections over seat sharing in the state. The Samajwadi Party chief accused the grand old party of initiating discussions on seat sharing, but later going back on a deal of giving 6 seats to his party.
Akhilesh even accused the Congress of “betrayal” and dropped enough hints that the Congress would get a similar treatment in Uttar Pradesh.
With the Congress putting up a very dismal show in the state, SP general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav said that the grand old party should take a lesson from the assembly poll results.
“The Congress should take a lesson from the election results. All of us should take a lesson from this. We all will do a review (of the results). The 2024 Lok Sabha polls should be contested after making the INDIA alliance strong,” he told reporters.
Shivpal Yadav also talked about former MP chief Minister Kamal Nath‘s “Akhilesh-Wakhilesh” comments and claimed people of the state did not like the comments.
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