RLD chief flays BJP for its poor track record on ‘real’issues
The Hindu
Joined hands with Akhilesh to rejig equation of Charan Singh, says Jayant Singh
Addressing a massive joint rally of the Rashtriya Lok Dal and the Samajwadi Party in Iglas town in Aligarh district on the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Charan Singh, RLD chief Jayant Singh chose not to respond to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Hindutva agenda and instead focused on the poor financial state of U.P., unemployment, farmers’ plight and law and order.
Without taking names, he referred to his early morning meeting with Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait at Kisan Ghat, the memorial of Chaudhary Charan Singh in Delhi, and said those who stood for farmers would work together to uproot the anti-farmer powers.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav could not attend the rally as he isolated himself after his wife and Kannauj MP Dimple Yadav had tested positive for COVID-19. State SP president Naresh Uttam Patel and senior leader Saleem Sherwani addressed the rally.