UP Election 2022: More BJP fears defeat, more Opposition leaders will get raided, says Akhilesh

Saturday, 18 December 2021Newsdesk

Hitting out at the BJP, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav said that the I-T department raids at the residences of his close aides on Saturday were the result of the ruling BJP fearing defeat in the upcoming polls. “The more the BJP’s fear of defeat increases, the round of raids on the opposition will also increase, yet the chariot of the SP and every program will continue unabated,” he tweeted.

New Delhi, 18 December 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, This comes after the Income Tax department on Saturday morning conducted searches at the Mau residence of Samajwadi Party (SP) national secretary Rajeev Rai, a close aide of party chief Akhilesh Yadav. “I have no criminal background or black money. I help people and the government didn’t like it. This is a result of that,’ Rai told news agency ANI. The residences of two other aides of Yadav were also searched this morning. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be laying the foundation stone of the ambitious Ganga Expressway project in Shahjahanpur district on Saturday. The 594-kilometre expressway — one of the longest in the country — will boost connectivity between western and eastern UP. It would span over the districts of Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Amroha, Sambhal, Badaun, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh and Prayagraj. It would start from Bijauli village in Meerut and would end near Prayagraj’s Judapur Dandu.

Source - The Indian Express