MUZAFFARNAGAR: Buoyed by a "good showing" in the rural polls of UP, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Friday claimed that his party will be able to unseat the BJP from Lucknow in the upcoming assembly polls and his cadres will work “day and night” to unite people of the state in the next eight months.
Azad’s newly-floated Azad Samaj Party kicked-off a state-wide cycle rally on Thursday. It was in Muzaffarnagar on Friday that party chief told TOI that its slogan was ‘Jaati Todo Samaj Jodo’ (break the cycle of caste and unite the society). “For the next eight months, we will work hard for a change of guard in the state. Every section of the society has been badly affected by the working of this government.”
He said: “In the next few months, BJP will try everything to divide people. That is why we have come forward to unite society with the message of brotherhood. Bahujan Samaj is divided into 6,741 castes and we are going to unite all of them.” He also alleged that ruling BJP has not done any development work in the state.
Azad said his party got a good response in the rural polls. “Not just in Muzaffarnagar, people have given us a mandate across the state in the panchayat polls. We have also won seats in Saharanpur, Bijnor, Kanpur, Etawah, Fatehpur, Kannauj, Gorakhpur, Balrampur, Basti, Azamgarh, Sultanpur, Unnao, Lucknow, Raebareli, Ambedkar Nagar and Aligarh. This shows people are supporting our candidates. Had the state administration been fair, our numbers in the panchayat polls could have been a lot better.”
Azad Samaj Party has won in seven out of 43 wards in Muzaffarnagar.
