INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
BJP being treated to a drubbing in the recent assembly elections on Tuesday, opposition leaders made their excitement known through
predictions of a repeat in 2019 and the occasional jibe at the Narendra Modi government
Standing tall among such comments was a playful take by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on the BJP's slogan for the 2014 Lok Sabha
elections: "Abki baar, Modi sarkaar (This time, bring in Modi's government).""Abki baar, kho di sarkaar," he tweeted shortly, which
translates to "This time, you have to quit governance".Mr Yadav's Samajwadi Party and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party had emerged as the
biggest losers in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, when PM Modi led the BJP to a stunning 325-seat victory that silenced all his
In fact, the loss had smarted so much that the two former regional rivals were forced to bury the hatchet and stitch together an alliance to
remain relevant in the state's political scenario.In his second tweet today, the Samajwadi Party chief again brought up the subject of a
"If one and one come together to form eleven, even the most tallest in power will bite the dust," he claimed.Although Mr Yadav was among the
few politicians who did not mind allying with the Congress at a time when it seemed crippled by the rout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he
had lately been keeping his distance from the party
The Samajwadi Party even stayed away from a meeting of 21 opposition parties held on Monday
The Congress' success in the just-concluded elections in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, however, is likely to raise its stock
among peers in the opposition and provide their plans to form a united front against the BJP with renewed impetus.Besides one-liners, the
Samajwadi Party president is also known for his poetic attacks on political rivals
Recently, he picked on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's penchant for changing the names of places with a couplet that went:
"All works have stopped, materials lie scattered; paths of development stand blocked, only names are being changed."Tagged to the poem were
a few photographs of unfinished projects in the state.For the latest News Live Updates on Election Results from each assembly constituency
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