Lucknow, Oct. 11 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday challenged Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav to contest the forthcoming assembly election in Uttar Pradesh from Ayodhya, offering a direct electoral fight to settle as to who had greater political strength.

He was responding to the challenge that the SP chief had thrown at him on Thursday (October 8) to contest the upcoming assembly elections from Ayodhya. Yadav had claimed the BJP was struggling to finalise a candidate and is trailing in successive surveys.

"Come, you too file your nomination from Ayodhya, and I will also file my nomination from there. Let us test our luck once and settle the matter. You come and I will come too," Adityanath said, targeting ...