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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026) said the confederation with its partners would proceed successful aboriginal elections, asserting that the look volition beryllium "victory not seats".
Speaking astatine an lawsuit organised by Amar Ujala newspaper, erstwhile asked whether Congress person Rahul Gandhi and helium would beryllium seen campaigning unneurotic successful the coming elections, Mr. Yadav said his enactment has immense acquisition successful moving alliances and ever ensured that its allies benefited from the arrangement.
"We person entered into galore alliances. We person acquisition of alliances and the Samajwadi Party has ever ensured gains for its allies. We person ne'er betrayed anyone. The confederation that exists contiguous volition proceed ahead," Mr. Yadav said.
He said that aboriginal confederation discussions would not revolve astir bargaining for seats but astir ensuring electoral success.
"There volition not beryllium a question of seats successful the alliance. Even during the Lok Sabha elections, I had said that the contented was not astir seats, the contented was astir victory. The aforesaid look volition enactment again. The question volition not beryllium of seats, the question volition beryllium of victory," helium said.
The remarks presume value amid continued discussions implicit absorption unity and imaginable seat-sharing arrangements for the assembly predetermination successful Uttar Pradesh owed adjacent year.
Asked astir the look of opposition, Mr. Yadav said it would beryllium inflation, rising terms of fuel, Agniveer youths, farmers, labourers and besides 69,000 sikshamitras, who did not get a permanant job.
Asked to beryllium specific, helium said, "What is the request of a look for opposition. Inflation is itself a large face."
Attacking the ruling party, helium said, "Where the BJP ends, PDA [pichhade, dalits, alpsankhyak, an acronym coined by Mr. Yadav for backwards, Dalit and minorities] starts from there," helium said.
Mr. Yadav said PDA besides stands for "Prem, Daya, Apnapan" [love, kindness, affection].
Referring to the NEET insubstantial leak, the SP main said determination were much victims of it than officially reckoned.
"If we instrumentality into relationship 5 members of 22 lakh NEET affected students, it volition beryllium 1.1 crore people who were affected owed to the leak. These 1.1 crore radical are our faces. Among those affected 4 lakh students are from Uttar Pradesh and implicit 20 lakh affected families," helium said.
Asked astir the enactment strategy to combat the BJP, helium said, "I volition not disclose our strategy arsenic we are warring those who are precise almighty people."
In the U.S.-Iran war, Mr. Yadav said, "If India stood with Iran, this warfare would not person happened… The mode successful which our Prime Minister landed successful Pakistan without immoderate schedule, successful a akin mode had helium landed successful Iran, this warfare would not person happened. I accidental with afloat responsibility."
Replying to a question about Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's connection that namaz volition not beryllium allowed connected roads, Mr. Yadav said, "There is simply a instrumentality connected what is to beryllium done connected the roadworthy oregon not. There should not beryllium governmental scoring. BJP is the biggest 'adharmi party' [immoral]."
"As acold arsenic roads are concerned, they should beryllium broadened... They [BJP] are raising the contented truthful that our treatment goes to different absorption connected different matters," helium said.
"Who is offering namaz connected roads? If idiosyncratic is and determination is shortage of space... past what is the problem... They privation america to get caught up determination else. We volition not autumn successful their trap. We volition archetypal inquire astir NEET and different issues," Mr. Yadav said.
