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BSP’s Akash Anand says electing right leaders brings real change
Bahujan Samaj Party national convenor Akash Anand on Monday addressed a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district and said that while Gen Z protests in Delhi proved critics wrong, real change requires…
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Bahujan Samaj Party national convenor Akash Anand on Monday addressed a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district and said that while Gen Z protests in Delhi proved critics wrong, real change requires electing the right leaders. “It should be assessed as to what change was brought about. They changed one person and brought another, but neither the policy changed, nor the process, nor the officials,” he said. Anand coined a new slogan, ‘Is baar vote haathi ko, apne purane sathi ko’, and urged voters to make Mayawati chief minister for a fifth time.
He accused the Uttar Pradesh BJP government of spending over Rs 7,000 crore on advertisements to hide failures on employment and education. Anand also called Congress and BJP two sides of the same coin and said Congress acts like BJP wherever it is in power. He referred to Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav as “uncles” and defended reservation, calling it a tool for social equality, not poverty removal. He urged youth to vote for BSP in the upcoming state polls.
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Akash Anand’s speech cleverly courts Gen Z voters while dismissing street protests as insufficient for real change. Yet he himself admits the Delhi agitation forced a minister to resign. His blanket attack on BJP and Congress as the same ignores how differently each party has handled reservation and social justice in states. He also offers no new economic plan beyond returning Mayawati to power. The real test will come in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, can BSP improve on its 2022 vote share, or have voters moved on from its old formula?
Source: hindustantimes.com
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