Overview

• Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav announced full support for Lalu Prasad Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.
• He vowed to expose alleged BJP scams in Uttar Pradesh during the Bihar campaign to inform voters of his party’s corruption claims.
• Yadav claimed the BJP plans to force Nitish Kumar into retirement and deny him another term as Bihar chief minister.
• He accused the BJP of religious hypocrisy, arguing that wearing saffron robes does not confer Sanatan identity without just conduct.
• Yadav forecast that the 2027 Uttar Pradesh polls will be unprecedented and said opposition criticism of BJP governance will drive the party’s strategy.