Budaun (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 2 : Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said that the INDIA bloc has decided to waive farmers' loans if the opposition bloc is voted to power.
"One lakh farmers have committed suicide. BJP should tell if they worked in favour of farmers or the industrialists? They didn't waive loans of farmers but industrialists. INDIA bloc has decided that we will waive farmers' loans when we come to power...Till now more than 10 exam question papers have leaked...Earlier they (BJP) used to say "400 paar", but now they can only hear '400 haar'," Akhilesh Yadav said in a public rally in Budaun.
As per the seat agreement between the Samajwadi Party and Congress in Uttar Pradesh, Congress will contest 17 seats and the Samajwadi Party the remaining 63 seats in the electorally crucial state.
UP, which sends a maximum of 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha, is undergoing polling across all seven phases. The counting of all seven phases of voting will be held on June 4.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the winner by securing the majority of seats available.
Of 80 seats, the BJP won 62, followed by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) with 10 seats, the Samajwadi Party (SP) with five seats, and the Apna Dal with two seats.
Lok Sabha elections are being held in seven phases till June 1 and votes will be counted on June 4.