Akhilesh Yadav rejects nepotism charge

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday responded strongly to the charges of casteism and nepotism levelled against him by BJP and chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

“There have been allegations over and over again that our party endorses dynastic politics and we work for a particular community people. I want to ask them to kindly show us where we have built a separate ‘Yadav lane’. The government has no schemes, plans of their own as such and is just inaugurating the work done by our government. To make matters worse, they keep telling lies all the time” he told the media.

Mr Yadav said that the Yogi government is indulging in politics of defamation.

“BJP leaders allege that people from Etawah and from a certain community were selected whenever opportunities opened up in the police department. But when the results were out, it was clear that all the eligible candidates were shortlisted. The BJP government is not giving any jobs, but is busy raising questions on jobs that were given in our regime. These people also raised questions on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway and did an intensive investigation but found nothing wrong with it. They are busy in politics of defamation and nothing else”, he alleged.