Lucknow, Nov. 8 -- Uttar Pradesh Minister Danish Azad Ansari on Sunday questioned Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav over the party's representation of backward classes, Dalits and Muslims, alleging that the party failed to consider these communities while selecting its candidates for two Rajya Sabha seats.

Targeting the SP's PDA (Pichhde, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) outreach, Ansari asked why the party did not nominate candidates from these communities when it had the opportunity to send two members to the Rajya Sabha.

"... Akhilesh Yadav and the Samajwadi Party must answer one question: If you are such strong supporters of PDA, where was PDA when you had to send two MPs to the Rajya Sabha? Why did you not remember the backward classes,...