Why SP chief Akhilesh Yadav lashed out at ally Congress’ KC Venugopal in Lok Sabha?
After he was not allowed to speak in Lok Sabha, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister angrily asked Speaker Om Birla, "Has there been a deal?"
After he was not allowed to speak in Lok Sabha, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister angrily asked Speaker Om Birla, "Has there been a deal?"
The Monsoon Session opened with sharp political exchanges as the Samajwadi Party intensified its attack over alleged NEET irregularities and demanded stronger safeguards for competitive exams.
Samajwadi Party National President and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, addressing students and parents of the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Rampur, said, "We are all fully with the youth and their parents in their campaign to save Jauhar University."
"The BJP's negative ideology is one of 'conflict'; not dialogue. The BJP has become synonymous with despair. It's not the BJP government--it's arrogance!" Akhilesh Yadav said.
Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), calling it a "party of thugs" and claiming that the people of the state will wipe it out in the 2027 Assembly elections.
The exercise has triggered strong political reactions, with the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) claiming that the large-scale deletion of voter names would severely impact the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2027 Assembly elections.
The BJP, which earned the “Brahmin-Bania party” tag in its early years due to roots dominated by upper-caste Brahmins and trading Bania communities, transformed under Narendra Modi (an OBC) and Amit Shah from 2014, shattering the upper-caste image and securing massive electoral wins. While Upper castes still dominate, Brahmin discontent highlights tensions in the saffron balancing act.
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has claimed that infighting in the Uttar Pradesh BJP is rooted in the fact that BJP MLAs have already received news that 2.89 crore voters' names have been removed from the electoral rolls while it is being made out to be a confrontation stemming from a "rebel meeting".
Akhilesh Yadav was reacting to a so-called meeting of the Brahmin legislators of the BJP who were reportedly discussing the neglect of the community under the present regime.
A day earlier in the Legislative Council, while discussing the Bihar assembly elections, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya had said that during a meeting with Akhilesh Yadav at the airport, he had mentioned offering him sweets. He said, "I told him, 'Eat them now, or you can eat them on November 14.'"
