Lucknow: Targeting the BJP over CM Yogi Aditynath’s claim that they will sweep 2027 polls with 80:20 ratio, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said the CM was apparently unaware that it would be a 95:5 instead. “Uttar Pradesh’s electoral equation had shifted from 80-20 to 95-5, predicting a major BJP defeat in 2027,” Akhilesh said at a press conference in Lucknow. Accusing BJP govt of rampant corruption, Akhilesh said now the Supreme Court and the high court are giving the actual reflection of the policing standards and crime scene in the state.Akhilesh said closure of 26,000 schools and failed investments reflect govt’s failures at the education and economic front. “The medical health sector is in a very bad shape while condition of govt hospitals can be gauged from the fact that the parents of the AIIMS Gorakhpur director preferred treatment at a private hospital there,” Akhilesh said. People have seen through BJP’s hollow claims and are ready to vote it out in 2027 polls, SP chief said.Yogi had, in a recent interview, said the Assembly polls would be an ‘80:20’ contest, where 80% of voters supporting nationalism, cultural nationalism, good governance, security and prosperity will back the BJP led NDA, while the remaining 20% would support those opposed to these issues.Akhilesh said the CM made the ‘80:20’ to mean that the NDA would be in a position to contest only 80 Assembly seats in UP as the PDA alliance would prove to be better than the NDA.‘Demonetisation is slow poison for economy’Akhilesh Yadav said the note ban imposed 10 years ago has proved to be a slow poison with far reaching effects and was now set to translate into ‘vote ban’ for the BJP. He described it as a slow poison that has destroyed the rural economy and urban small-scale businesses and trade. Akhilesh said demonetisation was carried out to ruin the banking system. As a result banks were merged and financial institutions were sold off. “There could hardly be a more corrupt decision in the economic history of the world. It turned out to be an ocean of corruption,” Akhilesh said addressing a press conference on the 10th anniversary (Nov 8) of demonetisation.‘Will also visit Kedareshwar, Vrindavan’Akhilesh Yadav said he will visit Ayodhya and Vrindavan, and gave a new meaning to the party’s PDA slogan as “Pehle Darshan, Phir Ashirwad” (First Darshan, Then Blessings). Asked about his plans to visit the Ram Temple, the SP chief said he would also visit the Kedareshwar temple in Etawah and Vrindavan. “Not just Ayodhya, we will also visit Kedareshwar and Vrindavan,” he said, without specifying any date.
