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Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav alleged connected Sunday (February 22, 2026) that corruption and misgovernance person intensified successful Uttar Pradesh, portion asserting that "as sufferings increase, the PDA volition turn stronger".
PDA is an acronym utilized by SP leaders to notation to backward (pichhde), Dalit and number (alpsankhyak) communities.
Addressing a property league astatine the enactment office here, Mr. Yadav questioned the BJP government's improvement claims, saying, "We are incapable to find development. Where is it? The pipelines being laid are pipelines of corruption." He alleged irregularities successful infrastructure projects, claiming that h2o tanks are bursting owed to poor-quality enactment and that corruption is disposable connected the ground.
Taking a swipe astatine Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's projected sojourn to Japan aboriginal this month, Mr. Yadav said, "I person heard that the Chief Minister is going to Japan but is not going to Kyoto. He should spell determination and spot what is to beryllium done present and what helium has not been capable to bash successful the past 10 years."
After coming to powerfulness successful Uttar Pradesh successful 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had announced that Varanasi would beryllium transformed into a Kyoto-style city.
Referring to the BJP-led Centre's ambitious projects, Mr. Yadav said the outgo of the projected slug bid has escalated sharply from the archetypal estimate.
Apparently hinting astatine a tussle betwixt the 2 Deputy Chief Ministers and the Chief Minister, without naming anyone, Mr. Yadav said, "Today, erstwhile helium [the Chief Minister] has flown retired of India, we are making an connection — bring 100 MLAs and go the Chief Minister. Both of them [the Deputy Chief Ministers] stock the aforesaid ambition. Whoever manages to bring the numbers volition get the reward. The connection is unfastened for a week." CM Adityanath embarked connected a four-day sojourn to Singapore and Japan connected Sunday (February 22, 2026).
Mr. Yadav besides accused the BJP of spreading hatred done societal media by circulating "fake videos" and alleged that attempts were made successful the past to incite communal hostility for electoral gains.
He further alleged that the information covers of Opposition leaders are being withdrawn arsenic portion of a governmental strategy to "demoralise and insult" them.
On spiritual matters, Mr. Yadav criticised the State authorities implicit a caller FIR against Shankaracharya Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati. He alleged that Saraswati was prevented from taking a beatified dip during the Magh Mela and added that specified actions are unprecedented successful the country's spiritual traditions.
The FIR against Saraswati and his disciple, Mukundanand Brahmachari, has been lodged successful Prayagraj implicit allegations of intersexual maltreatment of a insignificant and different idiosyncratic implicit the past 1 year, including during the Magh Mela.
The enactment was taken connected Saturday (February 21, 2026) aft an bid passed earlier successful the time by the peculiar justice of a POCSO tribunal directed that a lawsuit beryllium registered connected an exertion moved by Ashutosh Brahmachari Maharaj and others.
Speaking connected exertion and artificial quality (AI), Mr. Yadav said innovations and startups should absorption connected solving people's existent problems alternatively than serving arsenic slogans.
He accused the Uttar Pradesh authorities of rebranding concern policies initiated during the erstwhile SP authorities successful the State, peculiarly successful Noida, and claimed that caller investments are not disposable connected the ground.
Alleging biology neglect, the erstwhile Chief Minister said the wellness of rivers, specified arsenic the Gomti, is deteriorating owed to concern discarded and sewage discharge. He claimed that river-cleaning initiatives launched during the SP authorities person been halted.
"As the sufferings of the radical rise, our PDA question volition expand," Mr. Yadav said, adding that the SP would proceed to marque efforts to unite radical to "protect ideology and the secular cloth of the society".
