JHANSI, Feb. 21 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday declared that the INDIA alliance will "completely wipe out" the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh in the 2027 assembly elections, asserting that just as the saffron party rose to power through UP, its fall would begin from here too.

Addressing a press conference in Jhansi, where he had come to attend party workers' family functions and inspect the site for a proposed PDA office, Akhilesh said the SP-Congress alliance had already dented the BJP's numbers in the previous election and the next one would deliver a decisive blow.

Attacking the ruling party on law and order, Akhilesh alleged that despite the BJP's vocal stand on Sanatan Dharm, th...