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A day after BJP released its UP poll manifesto, Samajwadi Party accused it of “directly lifting” several key sops from the SP manifesto. the BJP has lifted several key sops and promises from the SP manifesto, SP state president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said while addressing an election rally in Kushinagar.
The BJP released its election manifesto on Friday and like SP it has come up with commitments to provide laptops and tablet computers to students. Dispelling all speculations, the SP leader said that the party president Mulayam Singh Yadav would be chief minister once the SP comes to power in…
UP chief minister Mayawati on Sunday described the Election Commission’s order to cover her statues and those of her party’s election symbol, the elephant, as “casteist and anti-Dalit”, she said following its constitutional responsibility with honesty, the EC should have issued directives to get Congress’ poll symbol and RLD’s symbol ‘handpump’ covered like the statues of elephant.
If the EC does not take right decisions regarding symbols of these two parties, then the people will consider this decision taken with an anti-Dalit and casteist mentality and under pressure from the Congress-led government at the Centre,” Mayawati said at a press conference…