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Akhilesh Yadav Confirms INDIA Bloc's Unity for 2027 Uttar Pradesh Elections

The Samajwadi Party leader vows to mobilize backward classes, Dalits, and minorities to challenge BJP policies and promises investigations into key controversies.

Yadav also accused the government of pressuring the relatives of stampede victims to change the cause of death.
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav talking to media persons in Prayagraj on April 20. (HT photo)
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Overview

  • Akhilesh Yadav has reaffirmed the INDIA bloc's commitment to contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections as a united front.
  • He accused the BJP of acting as a 'land mafia' through the Waqf Amendment Bill, alleging it is aimed at seizing religious endowment lands.
  • Yadav criticized the BJP's economic policies, claiming demonetisation and GST have financially harmed citizens and weakened reservation rights.
  • He pledged to investigate the alleged mismanagement of the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela, including underreported fatalities and surveillance failures during a stampede.
  • The Samajwadi Party leader alleged that the government pressured families of stampede victims to alter the recorded causes of death.