LUCKNOW Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday launched a sharp counter-attack against Union home minister Amit Shah, dismissing his promise to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Uttar Pradesh as a belated election-eve ploy and predicting a landslide victory for the SP in the 2027 Assembly polls.
“In the counting, it is five seats. Highlighting the unimplemented Women’s Reservation Bill passed in 2023, Yadav announced that the SP would field a higher number of female candidates than the ruling party in the upcoming state elections. But these people have lost in 50 districts,” he said.
Addressing a press conference in the state capital hours after Shah promised the implementation of the UCC at a BJP state working committee meeting, the former chief minister remarked that it was “too late” for the home minister’s pitch. He alleged that the BJP’s six victories came through “deceit and tampering”, while SP candidates won based on public support.
He portrayed the results as a verdict against the BJP’s policies concerning teachers, students, education and unemployment among graduates. “Women teachers saw that primary schools are being shut. Where will our daughters study?” he asked and promised free education from KG to PG under a future SP government.
He claimed the BJP government had closed 26,000 primary schools while opening over 27,000 liquor shops, prompting large-scale voting against it by women teachers. The SP president confirmed his participation in the November 1 INDIA bloc rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi.
Yadav further alleged that more than 11,000 reserved posts in government jobs had been “looted”, over 20 examination papers had been leaked and 151 statues of Babasaheb Ambedkar demolished without action being taken. On the issue of adjusting Swami Prasad Maurya in the alliance, Yadav categorically said: “We won’t have any kind of alliance with him, he cannot fit in our alliance.”
