Kannauj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 18 : Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday asserted that that in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, the people of the nation will vote against the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Speaking to ANI, Akhilesh Yadav said that the public is fed up with the false guarantees of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the public has made up its mind to overthrow the BJP government not only in Uttar Pradesh but in the entire country.
"In the first phase itself, all the people of the country are going to vote against the BJP. The BJP made false promises for 10 years... The people of UP will vote against the BJP from Ghaziabad to Ghazipur," Akhilesh Yadav said.
Reacting to the BJP's slogan of '400 par', the SP chief said that this slogan shows that BJP is scared of the alliance.
"This slogan shows that the BJP is scared and that is why it is sending the Chief Ministers to jail. Be it Arvind Kejriwal or the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, they were sent to jail. he BJP is scared and that is why it is doing all this," he added.
When asked whether he would be joining the INDIA bloc rally in Jharkhand on 21 April, Akhilesh Yadav said that he would definitely join the INDIA bloc rally and would mark his presence there.
Akhilesh Yadav had reached Kannauj, where he held a meeting with the sector in-charge and brainstormed on the candidate.
Voting will take place on 102 constituencies across 21 states and union territories in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections tomorrow. Voters in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim will also elect their assemblies tomorrow. Voting begins at 7 and will end at 6 pm.
This year's Lok Sabha election, to be conducted from April 19 to June 1, will be the second-longest polling exercise in the country's electoral history after the first general election which was held over five months between September 1951 and February 1952.
The most populous state, which sends the most members to the Lower House of Parliament, at 80, will poll across all seven phases.