Mulayam asks son to implement manifesto within six months

Lucknow, Mar 23: Apprehending early general elections, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to implement the party manifesto and bring visible changes within six months.

"Changes should be visible in six months and the manifesto should be implemented within a year as there is no guarantee when Lok Sabha elections are announced after that," Mulayam said addressing party leaders and workers at a function to mark the 102nd anniversary of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia here.

"Lohia considered betrayal of promises as corruption," he said advising early implementation of the manifesto. The SP supremo said that he did not become the Chief Minister as he wanted to monitor the working of the government while remaining among party workers.

He asked Akhilesh that people should get time for direct meeting with the CM even if it is only for an hour in a week. Akhilesh said that people have given the SP a chance to serve by giving a majority and the party would try to prove itself.

He said that the government would take decisions by keeping farmers, poor and villagers at the centre.

Commenting on the previous Mayawati government, Akhilesh said, "the government which has been removed used to construct parks of stone and install statues of a living CM...our government will not do any such thing".

He said that UP has lagged behind in every sector, including roads, education and health. Alleging rampant corruption and price rise in the previous government, the CM said that SP has to come true on the expectations of the people.

PTI