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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said that he would not contest the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year. He also said that the alliance between his party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) has also been finalised.
In an interview with PTI, he said that the alliance of his party with RLD is final, they just have to finalise the seats. He further said that the chances of taking his uncle Shivpal Yadav’s party Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) along in the polls. He also said that his party doesn’t have any problem with this. He and his men will be given due honour, said Akhilesh.
Yadav is SP MP from Azamgarh and is the chief minister face of his party, and as the elections are nearing, his statement has come as a shock.
Recently, Akhilesh Yadav was caught in a major controversy as he glorified Muhammad Ali Jinnah at a party rally in Hardoi. In the rally, he said that Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jinnah, all came out from the same institutions. The4y all studied at the same institute, and then they became barristers and gave freedom.
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Later, his speech went viral on social media and the Bharatiya Janta Party started trolling the SP president for saying that Jinnah was a hero of India’s freedom movement.
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BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi also said that Mulayam Singh will also hold his head high after hearing this from Akhilesh Yadav, who has studied in Australia. The country considers Muhammad Ali Jinnah as the villain of the partition. Calling Jinnah the hero of freedom is the politics of Muslim appeasement.