The Income Tax Department investigated Rajiv Rai, the national secretary of the Samajwadi Party (SP), at his Mau residence on Saturday. Two additional SP leaders’ homes were also raided: Manoj Yadav in Mainpuri and Jainendra Yadav in Lucknow.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav responded to the raids by saying that Rai is being targeted because the BJP is afraid of losing the upcoming UP elections. “I’ve also told you before… I-T personnel has arrived up to this point. The ED and the CBI, as well as other agencies, will arrive in the coming days. There will be conspiracies, but the BJP will be driven out of Uttar Pradesh, he stated.
Rajiv Rai is the party’s spokesperson. He puts in a lot of effort to help the party grow. Why was his home searched so close to the election? They should have done the raid sooner if they had intelligence. As the polls approach, this Department has also arrived in UP to fight elections,”
” The BJP is following in the footsteps of the Congress. Take a look at Congress’s past: whenever it needed to scare someone, it used these core agencies. The BJP is doing the same thing today,” Akhilesh Yadav stated.
Akhilesh Yadav also accused the saffron party of failing to deliver on its election promise of bringing “Ram Rajya” to the state.
“The BJP said it would introduce Ram Rajya to India. The path of socialism, on the other hand, will lead to Ram Rajya. We will get Ram Rajya if socialism comes,” he stated.
