According to SP sources, the IT department searches were conducted on Saturday at the residences of party spokesperson Rajiv Rai in Mau, Jainendra Yadav, who was the OSD when Akhilesh Yadav was the chief minister, in Vinay Khand at Gomti Nagar in Lucknow, businessman Rahul Bhasin in Lucknow and of contractor Manoj Yadav in Mainpuri.IT officials did not comment on the searches.SP spokesperson Rajiv Rai has alleged that the searches were “politically motivated”.Yadav said, “Seeing the atmosphere in the state, I can say the Yogi government will not last. People have made up their minds for a ‘yogya’ (able) government. No government could be more ‘unupyogi’ (useless) than this. It has ruined Uttar Pradesh.”He also claimed the recent visits of chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of the 12 BJP-ruled states to various places in Uttar Pradesh, including Varanasi and Ayodhya, was due to the saffron party’s “fear of an impending defeat in the upcoming assembly elections”.”The BJP has become apprehensive of its impending defeat in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. This is the reason behind the increasing number of visits of their leaders from Delhi and chief ministers to this state,” he said.”When these leaders come, the Income Tax, Enforcement Directorate, CBI and other departments too will attack us. But it is being seen for the first time that these organisations have begun working to ensure that the SP is not able to form its government in the state,” Yadav alleged.He also promised to get a caste-based census conducted if his party is voted to power in Uttar Pradesh.On Akhilesh Yadav’s “unupyogi” remark, BJP state president Swatantra Dev Singh asked how can lodging Azam Khan and Mukhtar Ansari in jail and running bulldozer on Atiq Ahmad’s illegal property be “unupyogi”.He asked people to vote in the name of (Narendra) Modi and Yogi (Adityanath) and advised them not to take caste, religion, region or money power into consideration while exercising their franchise.About Yadav’s assertion that the BJP is “wary of its impending defeat” in the upcoming polls, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan expressed confidence that the saffron party will win more than 300 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.
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