Overview
- Addressing SP legislators on Tuesday, Akhilesh Yadav alleged the BJP is using the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls to keep eligible SP backers from enrolling.
- He urged cadres to prioritize adding new voters and pressed for extending deadlines for name additions in the ongoing revision.
- He promoted the PDA alliance of Backward classes, Dalits and minorities as a mounting challenge to the ruling party in the run-up to 2027.
- He reiterated support for a caste-based census, arguing it would secure rights, respect and developmental participation for marginalized communities.
- He cited illegal mining and broader law-and-order lapses as evidence of governance failure and called for a wider unity of democratic and secular forces.