ARABIAN TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party national president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that its politics centered on religion and money had come to an end. He claimed that recent controversies surrounding temple donations had exposed the party’s true priorities and weakened its political narrative.
Yadav said that while global crude oil prices had fallen significantly, leading many countries to reduce petrol and diesel prices for consumers, the BJP-led Central Government had failed to pass on the benefits to the people of India. Instead, he alleged that the government was protecting the interests of large corporations rather than ordinary citizens. According to him, the BJP was more concerned with benefiting companies than providing relief to the public from rising living costs.
The Samajwadi Party chief further alleged that fuel pricing in India was driven not by market forces such as demand and supply but by what he described as a “corrupt economic model.” He claimed that the profits earned by companies were linked to political gains for the ruling party and accused the BJP of allowing inflation to rise by refusing to reduce fuel prices. Yadav argued that expensive fuel had increased transportation costs, which in turn had pushed up the prices of food, essential commodities, and other goods, placing an additional burden on common citizens.
Referring to the alleged controversy over temple donations, Yadav claimed that even many BJP supporters who once believed the party could not engage in such activities had begun to question its credibility. He alleged that for the BJP, wealth had taken precedence over religious values and claimed that public trust in the party was steadily declining. Yadav further asserted that with what he described as the decline of the BJP’s religious politics, the party would now increasingly rely on financial influence in elections.
He alleged that corruption and inflation would continue to rise under such circumstances and claimed that the Indian public would reject money allegedly linked to religious donations. Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the controversy surrounding temple offerings and donations had brought an end to both the BJP’s politics of religion and money, marking what he described as a major setback for the ruling party.
