Janata Dal United gearing up for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls

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RATAN SHARGA

16 June, 2011

In order to regain its political ground in the Hindi heartland, Janata Dal United national president Sharad Yadav has begun touring the state; he went to temple town of Varanasi and then to Azamgarh in order to attract voters to his party's fold.

AFTER CREATING history in the recently concluded Bihar assembly polls, the workers of Janata Dal United have been working hard under the able guidance of their leadership that includes party’s national president Sharad Yadav and the dynamic Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, in order to regain their lost political ground in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

As there is little time left now for doing necessary preparation for the upcoming assembly elections, which are due in this Hindi heartland in 2012, the party president has given a clarion call to all his workers to pull up their socks and work day and night to see their party open up its account in the Vidhan Sabha. In order to accomplish this goal, Yadav himself has been touring the state keeping an eye on the chances that his party can get in order to brighten the prospects of Janata Dal United in the much-awaited Uttar Pradesh polls.

Yadav recently visited temple town of Varanasi and then he went to Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh in order to get a firsthand account of the party’s position and poll preparedness. He interacted with the press at Varanasi and talked to the masses in a rally that was organised by the party in Azamgarh on Monday where he lambasted the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for the price rise and corruption.

Speaking on the occasion in Azamgarh, he said his party was the first to raise the issue of corruption and black money in Parliament. “The amount of money that has been made in the Commonwealth games by Kalmadi and company could have made lives of thousands of families better. Had that money been used in the development and employment programmes then that would have given smiles to so many faces, but the loot brought a bad name to the nation and the games became a matter of national shame instead of national pride,” said Yadav.

He said he had no grudge against social activist Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev, but the way these people were approaching the issue it could not be dubbed as the “right approach” and the fast that was undertaken by Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev pushed the real issue back. The limelight that has been given to Anna Hazare and Ramdev by the media in recent times had sent the real issue of black money and corruption into oblivion.

Yadav further said the biggest threat to the nation and to the society was from the people playing ‘the politics of caste’ instead of development. He asked the people to elect good and honest people in elections rather than giving importance to caste and creed.

Addressing the people during his “Parivartan Rally” in Azamgarh, he also hit at Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and said in wake of price rise his name should have been “Mehngai Mohan Singh.”

Sharad Yadav looked quite optimistic on the occasion and said if the party could do extremely well in Bihar polls then there was no reason to fear the party would not be able to come up to the people’s expectations. We will be giving them good candidates and then it will be up to the electorate to decide whom they want to see win the election. We are living in a democracy and we have to respect people’s sentiments and their verdict at every cost.