Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday described the Waqf Amendment Bill as BJP's ploy to distract its core voters from the ‘real issues'.
"Every decision that the BJP takes is aimed at pleasing its own people. By waqf bill they want to address their vote bank because the BJP has failed to give jobs, employment or double the income of farmers because of which their core voter is unhappy with them," Akhilesh said responding to a media query outside Parliament in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Reiterating his party's commitment to oppose Waqf Amendment Bill at every forum, Akhilesh rubbished BJP's charge that the opposition was misleading the Muslims on Waqf Amendment Bill. "When BJP withdrew reservation to the Anglo Indian Community in the UP Assembly - under which one member from the community was nominated in the House – did the opposition mislead the people? They said demonetisation will end terrorism and corruption … but that did not happen," he said.
Akhilesh reached New Delhi on Tuesday. The bill is scheduled to be tabled on Wednesday with an eight-hour session for discussion.
Outside Parliament, Akhilesh also took part in a protest held by SP MPs against the attack on the Agra residence of party's Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Lal Suman. He questioned the "free passage" allowed to protestors who reached the MP's residence on a bulldozer and took on the BJP government in UP for allowing such attacks on MPs.