Samajwadi Party's National President Akhilesh Yadav has made a big attack on BJP amid the ongoing debate regarding 80-20 in the politics of Uttar Pradesh. He said that now the political fight in the state has not become 80-20 but 95-5. Akhilesh claimed that when the contest will be 95-5, BJP leaders will not even know where they will reach.
During a press conference held in Lucknow on Wednesday, Akhilesh Yadav said, 'BJP people know that the political fight is no longer 80-20 nor 20-80. Now it is 95-5 and when the contest will be 95-5 then the people of Bharatiya Janata Party do not know where they will reach. That's why you might have noticed that their language and behavior has also changed.
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Attacked BJP government
Akhilesh Yadav was cornering the BJP government on the occasion of completion of ten years of demonetization. During this, he also honored the child of a pregnant woman standing in line during demonetization. Akhilesh Yadav honors that child every year. He described demonetization as harmful for the country's economy and termed it the biggest corruption in the world. Akhilesh alleged that the decisions that BJP had started taking in the name of banking reforms in 2014 were taken forward in the name of demonetization.
Meanwhile, Akhilesh Yadav also accused the BJP government of corruption. He said, 'The government has a lot of information in the matter of corruption but there has been no contract worth Rs 17.5 thousand crores.' Pointing towards the alleged corruption in this contract, Akhilesh sarcastically said that give only one percent to our cashier (the child present on the stage) or spend some of it on the children's education.
What is 80-20?
The 80-20 formula has been in the news continuously in the politics of Uttar Pradesh after the statements of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Yogi Adityanath has many times defined the electoral contest between BJP and the opposition through this formula. Recently he had also mentioned about the fight of 80 percent versus 20 percent regarding the 2027 assembly elections.
In response to this, Akhilesh Yadav had taunted on social media on November 10 and said that the Chief Minister's 80-20 means that the BJP alliance will be able to contest elections only on a maximum of 80 seats and the PDA alliance will prove to be twenty compared to the NDA. The next day, he cornered BJP by presenting a new political equation of 95-5.