The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) refused to grant Akhilesh Yadav permission to visit JPNIC on Friday for the freedom fighter’s birth anniversary.
File Photo: Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav (ANI)
Yadav said BJP has blocked their way for paying homage to Lok Nayak JP. “Whether it is the BJP people or their government, their every action is a symbol of negativity. To prevent the Samajwadi people from garlanding the statue of ‘Jai Prakash Narayan Ji’ on his birth anniversary like last time, barricades have been put up around our private residence to stop them,” the SP chief posted on X.
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UP Congress chief Ajay Rai also attacked the Yogi government saying that they are acting like a “dictator.”
Meanwhile, BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari accused SP chief of doing politics in the matter adding that the SP has forgotten the ideals of Jai Prakash Narayan.
“Akhilesh Yadav is doing politics. The notice that has been issued makes it very clear that the construction is incomplete. Had Akhilesh Yadav had good intentions, he could have paid tribute to Jai Prakash Narayan even in his office. Today, SP has forgotten the ideals of Jai Prakash Narayan. Had they followed those ideals, they would not have forged an alliance with the Congress party,” he said.
Bhandari said that after facing defeat in the Haryana elections, the parties of INDIA bloc are resorting to a political stunt. After its defeat in Haryana, the entire INDI alliance was resorting to political stunts, he stressed.
The state BJP President Bhupendra Chaudhary said, “To break rules and take law & order in their hands has become the culture of the Samajwadi Party. Due to security reasons, the Lucknow Development Authority has sealed that place (JPNIC). Akhilesh Yadav is a big leader, he was the CM of UP and he is trying this (to visit JPNIC) just to get media attention. Samajwadi Party has been distracted from the path of JP…”
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