FAIZABAD:

patriarch

may have stopped kar sewaks in their tracks in 1990, but his son and party national president Akhilesh Singh Yadav backed the

’s temple manifesto at a mammoth gathbandhan rally in Faizabad on Friday.

“BJP’s manifesto on Ayodhya is also on Samajwadis’ wishlist. The Ram Mandir can be constructed at Ramjanambhoomi site under the constitutional and legal framework,” he said.

Reacting to Azhar Masood being declared a global terrorist by the United Nations, Yadav said, “Azhar is the same person sent to Pakistan in a special flight by the NDA government. BJP should remember that if India has to embolden itself in the subcontinent, the leadership must have to combative with China.

Targeting the BJP brass over Pakistan, he said, “the party can invoke the fear of Pakistan, but cannot dare face China as Indian markets are flooded with Chinese products. Where’s the swadeshi slogan of BJP,” he asked.

“People will evaluate five years of the BJP government and two years of Uttar Pradesh government while exercising their vote. Now, a new Prime Minister is needed from for new India. BJP has forgotten its 2014 promises. You have seen smart cities replete with garbage dumps and stray cattle everywhere. In Lucknow itself, stray cattle has killed 10 people and the story is the same in every district of Uttar Pradesh. We will develop Ayodhya-Faizabad as a world class city,” he said.