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Samajwadi Party’s national president Akhilesh Yadav Wednesday said only SP could defeat the BJP. He was addressing the party convention in Lucknow.
Akhilesh Yadav said that despite the results from the SP and BSP alliance were not as per expectations yet it has been proved that only SP can defeat the BJP.
At the convention, Naresh Uttam Patel was elected as the state president of the SP for the second consecutive term.
Akhilesh said the Samajwadis had taken a historic decision in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. We tried to realise the dream of Ram Manohar Lohia and B R Ambedkar of bringing the Bahujan forces on one platform, but those in power misused the official machinery and we failed, Akhilesh, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said.
“Though the election results for the alliance between samajwadis and bahujanwadis have not been favourable, it has been proved that only our party can defeat the BJP in Uttar Pradesh,” he asserted.
Akhilesh had become party president first on January 1, 2017 and again in October same year in another party convention. In this convention party president’s tenure was increased from three to five years.
Party’s national president will be elected Thursday and Akhilesh will take over party yet another time. But other than reuniting the party cadre SP has to overcome the issues connected to defeat in three big elections namely the 2017 state assembly elections, 2019 lok sabha and then in 2022 again the Up state assembly elections. All this after having won in 2012 as a full majority government in the state. Although the vote share of SP has gone up and also number of seats won has increased bu to form a government the number has to go manifolds.
