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.