Lucknow, Feb. 29 -- Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is unlikely to appear before the CBI on Thursday for questioning in an illegal mining case registered five years ago in which he is a witness, party sources said.The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister is scheduled to attend a meeting of PDA 'Picchda (backward classes), Dalit and Alpsankhyak (minorities)' at the party office here and has no plans to go anywhere till now, they said.

In reply to a question, the Samajwadi Party's backward wing state president Rajpal Kashyap told sources, "Akhileshji will attend a meeting of PDA at the party office today."

"He is not going anywhere. He will be attending a meeting in Lucknow," Samajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chowdhury said.

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