Overview
- Akhilesh Yadav used a Lucknow press conference to ask election authorities to add a caste field to Uttar Pradesh’s ongoing SIR process, a proposal not adopted by the state or the Election Commission.
- He argued the SIR’s scale could generate household-level caste data to inform development and social-justice decisions, describing it as a preliminary caste-based survey.
- Criticising farmer policy, he called the recent Rs 30 per quintal raise in sugarcane prices inadequate and faulted the government for advertising the change in English newspapers.
- He alleged a Bahraich sugar mill shut and its owners fled with crores owed to farmers, accused the government of shielding defaulters, and linked broader graft claims to the Akhilesh Dubey case and comments about the Vikas Dubey encounter.
- He said healthcare has worsened and that women and Dalits face greater insecurity, and he pledged that an SP government in 2027 would establish education and technology universities named after Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.