SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday said his party won’t give tickets to those who “insult and oppress people” in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and questioned the party’s preparedness for the upcoming panchayat polls.
“There are long queues of those seeking party’s ticket for <g data-gr-id="23">panchyat</g> elections, but they should improve their image first. There are allegations against several ticket seekers that they are contractors and commission agents... they insult and oppress people. We won’t give tickets to them,” Yadav told a gathering at an event to mark <g data-gr-id="30">birth</g> anniversary of former SP MP <g data-gr-id="26">Janeshwar</g> Mishra.
Senior party leader Ram Gopal Yadav would review the candidates’ applications for tickets, he said.
“Leaders from whose areas <g data-gr-id="28">maximum number</g> of village heads have been elected would be <g data-gr-id="25">preffered</g>,” he said.
Yadav said the feedback received paint a bad picture of SP and party leaders should reach out to people to make them aware of the work done by the government.
“<g data-gr-id="24">Panchyat</g> elections are just around the corner. 36 MLCs will be selected. I don’t know what preparations have been made for it,” he said.
“As per the feedback from people, a large number of them (SP leaders) will have to face defeat in the 2017 Assembly polls.