Akhilesh Yadav said that you do not know when the tourism minister will do tourism with others.

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Lucknow :

Samajwadi Party (SP) president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday claimed that Thakur Jaiveer Singh, the tourism minister in the current Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in the state, helped the SP in last year's Lok Sabha bypolls. Was.

Describing this claim of the SP chief as his outburst, the minister said that Yadav's mental balance has deteriorated due to the humiliating defeat of the SP in the recent cooperative elections.

SP President Akhilesh Yadav claimed in a press conference here that state Tourism and Culture Minister Thakur Jaiveer Singh had internally helped the SP in its victory in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll held in December last year.

On a question asked by reporters, Yadav said, "You never know when the tourism minister will do tourism with someone else."

He has done tourism before also.

He said, “He made the Samajwadi Party win in the Mainpuri (Lok Sabha) by-election.

He (Tourism Minister Jaiveer Singh) had met the Samajwadi Party internally.

Significantly, in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha by-election held in December last year, SP candidate and Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav won.

This seat fell vacant due to the demise of SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Meanwhile, Tourism Minister Jaiveer Singh in a conversation with 'PTI-Bhasha' termed Akhilesh's claim as wrong and called it the result of his anger.

He said, "Akhilesh Yadav's party was sent on tourism for the first five years by the public and again sent there again.

This is the fury of Akhilesh Yadav.

Sometimes he tells a Deputy Chief Minister of the state government that bring 100 MLAs, we will make you the Chief Minister, and sometimes he tells the same thing to another Deputy Chief Minister.

His mental balance has deteriorated.

Singh said that Akhilesh is shocked by the humiliating defeat of his party in his bastion Mainpuri in the recently held cooperative elections, that is why he is making various wild claims.

In a press conference, Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday targeted the government over the incident of sending a stork living with a man in Amethi to a bird sanctuary by the Forest Department and pointed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that if the government was snatching away the stork. If so, the peacock should also be taken away from those people who were feeding it.

In a press conference here, Yadav, while referring to the forest department team sending a stork living with a person named Arif in Amethi's Jamo area for the last one year to the Samastpur Bird Sanctuary in Rae Bareli, alleged that the government had The stork was 'snatched' only because he had gone to meet and congratulate Arif and that stork on March 5.

Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the former Chief Minister said without naming him, "If the government is snatching away the stork, then the government should also snatch away the peacock from those who were feeding it."

Does the government have the courage to reach there?

The government did this only because I came to meet the stork and Arif, who reared it.

The government has imprisoned that stork.

The government should tell where it has imprisoned the stork.

It may be noted that about two years ago a video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had appeared in the media in which he was feeding a peacock.

There were lot of discussions about this.

Arif was also present on the dais during the press conference.

The forest department team has sent the stork living as Arif's companion to Samastpur Bird Sanctuary in Rae Bareli.

Departmental officials claim that the stork living with Arif, a resident of Mandkha in Jamo development block of Amethi, has been sent to Unchahar Samastpur Bird Sanctuary in Rae Bareilly on Tuesday to bring it back to its natural environment.

The team of the department met Arif and took his consent for the same.

Although Arif has denied this.

The former chief minister alleged that the BJP government in the state was not only the enemy of farmers and common people but also of trees and birds.

He said, “I remember that our government had planned a research center for stork conservation in Etawah, that too was closed by the government.

Stork conservation center was being built in Etawah, this government snatched it.

Storks were being made friends, but the government abolished their honorarium.

There used to be bird festivals, they were also abolished.

You cannot expect BJP people to do anything for the environment.

Accusing the government, the former Chief Minister said that it is working to destroy the Constitution.

His every step is to destroy democracy.

Earlier, Akhilesh also released the book 'Kunti: Antarkatha' written by SP leader Pramod Tyagi.

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