Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said people who have faith in democracy are very disheartened by what has happened in the neighbouring state.
“I was soar about how the BJP misused government machinery to win the recently concluded bypolls on seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh. But what has happened in Bihar is much bigger and more blatant,” Akhilesh said on Thursday.
He said like the election results in US where no one knew what will happen till the last vote was counted, Bihar polls had a nail biting finish. “Aisa chunao humne kaheen naheen dekha … kisi ne nahi dekha hoga (I had never seen an election like this before … no one would have seen such an election),” he said adding that Tejaswi lost the poll when he was so close to win and form the government. “Now will elections be won like this?’ he asked.
Akhilesh said Bihar elections were perhaps the only instance where barely 13,000 to 14,000 votes decided which political alliance will form the government. “BJP ka gathbandhan 14,000 vote zada paya … aur kya tigdam lagayi … idhar se udhar … (BJP and its alliance partners got 14,000 more votes at best …. and manipulated the rest), he said adding BJP excels in such practices.
Yadav also presented people claiming to be Ayodhyaresidents whose farm fields have been marked for acquisition for airport expansion. He demanded the farmers should get the compensation they were demanding so that their land can add to the development of Ayodhya.
