Uttar Pradesh's Minister of State for Social Welfare (Independent Charge) Aseem Arun on Monday made a strong political attack on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. Aseem Arun termed Akhilesh Yadav's PDA (Backward, Dalit, Minority) formula as a mere election gimmick.
He sarcastically said that this slogan of Akhilesh Yadav is not for public welfare but only a means to reach the Chief Minister's chair. The people of Kannauj made a big mistake by electing Akhilesh Yadav as MP.
More than two and a half years have passed, but he did not stay in his parliamentary constituency even for a single night. He comes only to perform the rituals. Stop the car on the expressway, meet a few workers and return to Lucknow.
Minister Aseem Arun took a dig at the district executive being dissolved due to silence and empty chairs at SP's PDA conference in Kannauj. He said that the pictures of Kannauj conference are the real mirror of SP's grassroots support base. The absence of workers and indifference of the public is not unexpected. The disintegration that is visible in Kannauj today is the real situation of SP in the entire state.
Aseem Arun raised the question that as elections approach, Akhilesh Yadav starts remembering PDA, but what is his real agenda? He said that Akhilesh Yadav wants to become the Chief Minister, but does not tell what he will do after getting the chair? They remain silent on basic issues like law and order, crime control and corruption. They always maintain silence on women's rights and safety.
He said that a party which has neither a clear vision nor a concrete policy, whose only aim is to feed the cream of power to its family, is bound to face similar plight. Describing SP as ideologically hollow, he said that this party is completely bankrupt on both the parameters of policy and morality.
Highlighting the work of BJP in contrast to SP's politics, Aseem Arun said that in the double engine government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Bharatiya Janata Party is creating new paradigms of development.