"UP govt prepared hidden underground army which is insulting people": SP chief Akhilesh Yadav

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 7 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and Lok Sabha MP Akhilesh Yadav on Monday attacked the Uttar Pradesh government and alleged that the state government have prepared a hidden "underground army" which is insulting people.
"If an incident happens with Ramji Lal Suman (SP MP) or any SP leader, the CM himself would be responsible for it. Because CM himself has given his blessings to that organisation, all the people that you can see there...we should not speak of caste, but we can see a caste connection here...CM himself is encouraging all of this. There used to be troopers during Hitler's era. Similarly, they have prepared a hidden underground army which is insulting people from time to time," Akhilesh Yadav said.
BSP leaders Daddu Prasad and Salauddin joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the presence of party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Meanwhile, Dev Ranjan Nagar and Jagannath Kushwaha also joined the Samajwadi Party.
Three-time legislator Daddu served as Rural Development Minister in the Uttar Pradesh government between 2007 and 2012.
Earlier in the day, the SP Chief attacked the UP government, alleging that it had neglected the state's farmers.
"The fact that the 'tomato farmers' in UP are not even able to recover their costs shows how much the BJP government neglects agriculture. In fact, the BJP does not promote production but the act of buying and selling anything so that money can be earned in between. The BJP's thinking is of middlemen in everything, be it the economy or politics. The BJP wants to give away the land and business of farmers to capitalists on a large scale so that huge donations can be collected directly from them," he said in a post on X.
"The proof of this was those black laws, which the BJP government brought due to its wrong intentions but could not implement due to the awareness and unity of the farmers. That is why the BJP government constantly discourages farming. Due to its wrong policies, the BJP has given rise to the problem of stray animals, due to which the crops are eaten by stray animals, the farmers get frustrated with farming and leave farming and the lands are captured by BJP capitalists. Condemnable! Today's farmers say they don't want BJP, " he added.
On April 5, the SP chief attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accusing it of rampant land-grabbing in Uttar Pradesh and branding it the "biggest land mafia" in the country. His remarks come amid heightened political discourse over land ownership and the recently passed Waqf (Amendment) Bill.
"The biggest land mafia party is the BJP. No one has grabbed more land than the BJP. Just check the registries of Gorakhpur, Ayodhya, Kanpur, and Lucknow. Here, government land, ponds, and many other things have been snatched in various ways," he said.
Referring to an incident in Gorakhpur, Yadav added, "In Gorakhpur today, bullets were fired over land... The Supreme Court and High Court have called the bulldozer inhumane countless times. The most land mafia activities have happened in Gorakhpur and Ayodhya." (ANI)