LUCKNOW, May 24 -- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in the state of plunging the country into a "severe economic crisis" marked by inflation and hikes in petrol and diesel prices on a daily basis.

Addressing party leaders and workers from various districts at the SP headquarters in Lucknow on Sunday, Yadav said that after nearly 12 years in power at the Centre, the BJP had failed to control the economy, making life increasingly difficult for the common man with soaring prices, unemployment, and corruption reaching new heights.

The Kannauj MP alleged that the BJP had ruined Uttar Pradesh and inflicted injustice on the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) communities during its ...