Akhilesh Yadav interview: This is a gathbandhan for the future’
There is
nothing special about the BJP. They have only cheated the country. When the BJP
came to power, the country was under a debt of Rs 35 lakh crore. In the last
five years, it has gone up to Rs 70 lakh crore. Where did this Rs 35 lakh crore
go? Who got it? The farmers did not get it, nor the
poor, or the youth. On the noteban, they said they will wipe out black money
and corruption. Kya shauch-alaya mein paani hai, kya bina paise ke
shauchalaya ban gaya (Is there water in the toilet, was it constructed
without a bribe)”
In UP, from Day 1, the
BJP started with a politics of hate, stoked caste and religious conflict. Can
the country’s Prime Minister speak like this? Could anyone imagine that this
would also be talked about - where electricity has reached first, and where
later? That there will be accusations that we gave electricity more on Ramzan
than on Diwali? Today, the government has all the data, let them see if we
provided electricity selectively.
Kya kabristan ki
boundary pe politics hogi? Kya pradhan mantri kahenge ki thaane mein ek hi
jaati ke log rehte hain (Will
we spar on the boundaries of burial grounds now? Can the PM say things like
only one caste is represented in the police station)? Arrey, you tell me, in
UP, if there is even one DM or SP today who is a Yadav. These people made
castes turn on each other and after they formed the government, they said that
they would set up a commission to probe how many Yadavs are in government jobs.
They found that there weren’t too many, it turned out some other caste was
over-represented. That report has still not been made public….
The BJP has tried
hard, but the truth is out ever since they got scared of a jawan (Tej Bahadur
Yadav, former BSF jawan, was given the SP ticket from Varanasi, but his
nomination was rejected by the EC on technical grounds). What was his fault?
That he spoke up on the poor quality of food. I have friends who are
officers in the Army, my wife is from an Army background, my father was defence
minister. We can’t be nationalists if we ask questions? Is asking for the truth
wrong in a democracy?
Shouldn’t the country
know, shouldn’t the government tell, how much RDX there was at Pulwama, and how
it got here? What was the route? Forget what happened to Pakistan. Just tell us
what was the route the RDX took... read more: