Uttar Pradesh: ‘Double-engine govt’ could not even make a start in 4.5 years, says Akhilesh Yadav

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said the four-and-a-half-year of BJP rule in Uttar Pradesh can be best described as the story of a government that remained stranded in the yard as the self-proclaimed double engines could never start.
He said the ruling BJP remained afloat all the while only by misleading people through government advertisements.
“The ruling BJP claimed that it had a double engine government but the reality is that the engines never started.The double engine government has been parked in the sick-yard and no one heard the engine throttle even once,” Akhilesh said hours after the government held a press conference to outline its achievement since it came to power.
“While making tall claims and announcing projects, what the chief minister forgets is that people can easily make out that a government has failed to deliver in the past four-and-a-half-years and the last six months of the regime will be no different,” the former UP CM said.
He said the 16-page booklet that the government has released to highlight ‘its achievements’ is actually full of falsehood and lies.
“It seems to be more a text book of BJP’s international training institute of falsehood and lies which the party will only be able to circulate online and will not dare to distribute it among people who are angry over government apathy,” the SP chief said.
“All that the BJP government has done is change names of schemes that were started by the previous Samajwadi Party government and inaugurate them. There is not a single project that the government can name of which it has laid the foundation stone and inaugurated as well,” he said.
The SP chief said all that the government has done and repeatedly so is to humiliate women, Dalits and Backwards as if it was BJP’s core agenda. The government has also made a mockery of the democratic set up to attack the very spirit of the Indian Constitution. He said the people of the state are feeling cheated by the manner in which law and order went for a toss under the ruling BJP, crime against women and children, rapidly rising unemployment and anti-farmer policies have impacted all sections of the society.
“Instead of politics of hate and vendetta, people of Uttar Pradesh want development, jobs for youth and welfare of the people at large. People are ready to vote the BJP out of power and form the SP government in UP in the assembly polls,” Akhilesh said.