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Lucknow, Dec 7 (PTI) Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary on Tuesday formally announced his party"s alliance with the Samajwadi Party and said if they come to power in Uttar Pradesh next year, the first work will be to build a memorial for "martyrs" of the farmers" protest.
Slamming the BJP government in the state for the recent leak of a government competitive examination question paper and subsequent cancellation of the test, Chaudhary said because of such incidents youngsters are not getting appointments, and they have to migrate and work in other places.
The BJP will get a befitting reply from the people in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls next year as they have understood its politics of hatred, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief said while addressing a rally along with Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav in Meerut.
Talking about the alliance, Chaudhary said, "Akhilesh ji and I are together, and I am making an announcement in this regard.
The first work our double-engine government will do is to construct a memorial for martyr farmers, who died during farmers" protest here in the land of Chowdhury Charan Singh." The BJP talks of "hatred" and "our Babaji (Chief Minsiter Yogi Adityanath) starts with Aurangzeb and ends with the Kairana exodus", the RLD leader said.
The BJP during the last assembly elections had claimed that many Hindu families had migrated from Kairana town in fear of criminals.