Leader of Opposition of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Mata Prasad Pandey, said on Monday that they always had been PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) people, countering the opposition alleging the Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav betraying the backward and Dalits.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday slammed Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, alleging that he has always been against backwards and Dalits.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday called Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya a "Mohra," after which Keshav Prasad Maurya hit back by calling SP chief the "Mohra" of the Congress party and suggested that he should save SP from "extinction."
Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, party General Secretary KC Venugopal, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, TMC MP Dola Sen were seen participating in the protest.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav criticised the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman saying that the budget is a way to retain power as it mentioned a special project for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
At the Trinamool Congress's (TMC) Dharamtala rally in Kolkata, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav and TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee delivered strong criticisms of the BJP government, accusing it of using underhanded tactics to stay in power and predicting its imminent downfall
Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav left from his residence in Lucknow on Sunday to join the Trinamool Dharmatala Rally, which will be held later in Kolkata on Sunday.
Targeting Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav following his remarks amid row over displaying owners' names on Kanwar route, former Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam said that the opposition leaders want to create divisions.
After sharing a post that the BJP organisation is stronger than the government which prompted comments by Opposition leaders, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Wednesday took a jibe at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and said that BJP is strong at both state
CM Mamata said she would also meet Nationalist Congress Party (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray there, and might also meet Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government for allegedly hiding its "failure" in the Hathras stampede and claimed that the arrests being made in the incident are part of a "conspiracy".
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav referred to the party's win in Ayodhya (Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency) as the "victory of mature voters' democratic understanding."