Lucknow:
Akhilesh Yadav at a press conference in Lucknow:
- Voters have shown their faith in the Samajwadi Party. I am grateful to all of them.
- They accepted the manifesto we placed in their midst.
- We will implement this manifesto for the progress of UP.
- Our party went beyond caste equations.
- Our whole party wants Netaji (Mulayam) as chief minister.
- Party's senior members to meet tomorrow to discuss staking claim to form the government.
- Corruption had become such a big deal, but let us now focus on the positive and look ahead.
- In politics, we all go through defeats and victories. We have also been on the losing side earlier. We had to accept our defeat at that time.
- For now, let us leave all that aside.
- Statues set up by Mayawati will not be removed. We may look at building a hospital in the space not used in the Lucknow memorial park.
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