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More votes mean more fund, SP tells voters

"Fund allocation will be according to the number of votes the SP candidate gets"

Rae Bareli: In a desperate bid to garner support of the electorate of this Lok Sabha constituency, where Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is seeking re-election, the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Thursday said the villages and polling booths from where the party got maximum votes would receive maximum funds from the SP-ruled government in the State.

``The fund allocation will be according to the number of votes the SP candidate gets from a particular polling booth,'' party general secretary and State PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav said while addressing an election rally at Amawan near here.

Mr. Yadav, younger brother of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, also issued a veiled threat to the MLA from the Sadar Assembly constituency Akhilesh Singh for what he alleged helping the Congress in the by-election.

Mr. Singh had been expelled from the Congress after his name appeared in a murder case after which he had formed a separate outfit. He had recently announced that he would be supporting Sonia Gandhi in the by-poll.

Mr. Yadav also listed the achievements of his government during its three-year stint and claimed that it had initiated several welfare measures for every section of the society.

PTI

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