LUCKNOW, Sept. 2 -- Claiming that the people of Uttar Pradesh have already decided to bring the Samajwadi Party back to power, party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday exhorted workers to ensure a better performance in the 2027 assembly elections than in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a gathering of leaders and workers from various districts at the party's state headquarters in Lucknow, Yadav said the party must remain united and ensure that not a single supporting vote is lost. He warned cadres to remain vigilant against "conspiracies" by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said there should be "no deception this time". The SP chief claimed that people were "fed up" with what he described as the BJP's "misgovernance, injustice, atrocities, corruption and discrimination" at every level. He also claimed that people in the state wanted the BJP out of power and that the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) alliance was united against the ruling party's "unjust rule". Highlighting the SP's approach, Yadav said its PDA stood for progressive and development-oriented politics based on love, compassion and a sense of belonging. Yadav alleged that the BJP had ruined mandis built during the SP regime, failed to ensure remunerative prices for crops and allowed middlemen to exploit cultivators. He also alleged that fertiliser had been "stolen" and that farmers had been forced to run from pillar to post for it every season since the BJP came to power. htc...