SP needs political health tonic: Dinesh Sharma

Taking a swipe at the Samajwadi Party, Deputy UP Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma Monday said efforts made by Akhilesh Yadav to safeguard the political health of the SP are "failing" and his party is in dire need of a "political health tonic".

Sharma also dubbed the SP-BSP tie up as an "unnatural alliance, which will taste defeat similar to the one in 2017."
Sharpening his attack on the SP, the Deputy Chief Minister said, "In 2017 UP Assembly elections they had aligned with the Congress, which was itself a weak party from the political point of view. They suffered a humiliating defeat in UP polls. Now, they have forged an alliance with the BSP, which had failed to open its account in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. I feel efforts made by Akhileshji to safeguard the political health (of his party) are failing."
Referring to the SP-BSP-RLD alliance, Sharma said, "There is growing disappointment among SP, BSP and Congress after the first three phases of polls in the state. In the 2017 UP Assembly elections, there was an alliance between two boys, and now one boy has been replaced with a bua. This new alliance is getting the external support from the other boy (apparently referring to Rahul Gandhi)."
He also observed that this is "an unnatural alliance, which will taste defeat similar to the one in 2017."
Maintaining that there is "no vacancy for the Prime Minister's post till 2024", Sharma said, "It is laughable that those who are contesting on 10 seats, 37 or 38 Lok Sabha seats, are dreaming for the PM's post. To them, I want to say that there is no vacancy for the prime minister's post till 2024. In this era of no vacancy, the opposition will only face despair (hatasha) and disappointment (nirasha)."