Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday criticised the BJP's poll manifesto for not giving space to the problems of farmers and labourers who constituted a major part of society.
The manifesto only promised to solve the problems of corporates, the Samajwadi Party leader said at an election rally at Hajipur in support of party candidate Bir Chand Paswan.
Yadav said that while Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav was a "true representative" of farmers, BJP prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi, on the other hand, was the "representative of corporates."
He said the party had fielded a candidate from "Chaurasia" caste (which deals with betel trade) at Varanasi for defeating "chai wala" (Narendra Modi).
"Everybody knows that paan (betel) is more popular than chai (tea), particularly in Varanasi and neighbouring areas in Bihar," he said.
He listed the achievements of the the SP government in UP made in "a small time of two years" and promised to publicise them across the country.
Yadav said that almost 20 per cent of the UP budget had been earmarked for the welfare of Muslims, laptops for students, free medicines, pension, and security for elders.
The SP government had also distributed 1.5 lakh laptops among students in two years, he said, adding Bihar and UP shared a common culture and faced the same problems.
He appealed to the people to give the SP a chance at the centre, to spread the UP model of development in the country.
The UP CM also addressed rallies at Sheohar in support of SP candidate Lovely Anand, wife of jailed former JD(U) leader Anand Mohan Singh, and at Barh for SP candidate Ram Badan Rai, from Munger earlier on Monday.
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