Varanasi: Taking inspiration from Trinamool Congress’s popular slogan ‘Khela Hobe’ and its success against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal elections, former MLA of Samajwadi Party (SP) Haji Abdul Samad Ansari has started painting its Bhojpuri version — ‘2022 mein Khela Hoyi’ (game will happen in 2022) — on the walls of his house and also of supporters.
Assembly polls will be held in Uttar Pradesh in 2022.
The paintings put up by Samad carry SP’s symbol ‘bicycle’ and slogans ‘Ummid ki cycle’ and ‘2022 mein Khela Hoyi’, and have been catching attention of passersby on the busy Maqbool Alam Road since Thursday morning.
Regarding the slogan, Samad said, “SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has released the party’s slogan for forthcoming assembly election — ‘Do hazar bayees me bicycle (Bicycle in 2022)’.
Considering the mood of the people in the Bhojpuri belt of east UP, we also created a slogan ‘Do hazar bayees me khela hoyi’ as people are upset due to lies and promises of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
They are enthused after TMC taught a bitter lesson to BJP in the recently held WB election.” Samad had won the assembly poll on SP ticket for the first time in 2007 from the City North assembly seat but he lost in the 2012 election.
In the 2017 assembly election, when SP had an alliance with Congress and the City North had been allotted to junior alliance partner, Samad had been fielded on Congress symbol.
After the 2017 assembly poll results some groups started claiming that Samad had joined Congress.
Samad said, “I had contested on Congress symbol on the order of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav.
But, some of my rivals inside SP started a false campaign against me to create confusion despite the fact that I am dedicated to SP only.”