Ayodhya poll challenge: Now, Akhilesh fires ticket salvo at Yogi
Lucknow, Oct. 12 -- Political sparring over the Ayodhya challenge continued on Sunday a day after chief minister Yogi Adityanath accepted Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav's dare to file his nomination from Ayodhya for the upcoming assembly elections and invited the former CM to do the same.
Adityanath's offer on Saturday prompted the SP chief to respond the same evening that this PDA Prahari was enough for the contest.
On Sunday, Yadav claimed that the chief minister himself had to seek tickets from BJP leaders and questioned whether Adityanath was in a position to decide party tickets.
Yadav was speaking to the media after paying floral tributes to socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan at the Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC) in Lucknow on his birth anniversary.
Responding to recent remarks on the Ayodhya challenge, Yadav said, "Our wind will sweep away arrogant people."
He urged the BJP to focus on its own electoral prospects instead of commenting on the SP's ticket distribution.
He also pointed to the Samajwadi Party's decision to field its candidate from Ayodhya while questioning the BJP's claims on the matter.
The SP has already named Tej Narayan alias Pawan Pandey as its candidate for the Ayodhya assembly seat currently held by the BJP's Ved Prakash Gupta.
"Change is certain. This government has no more than 45 to 50 days left," he asserted, without elaborating further on the timeline.
Referring to allegations of mistreatment of women during the Delhi protest, Yadav alleged that the personnel involved were from Uttar Pradesh, with some reportedly belonging to Ghaziabad.
"These people have learnt from Hitler. Hitler's troops used to treat political workers in a similar manner," he alleged.
JPNIC became accessible again on Sunday morning after the administration removed barricades and a large police force deployed on Saturday evening ahead of Yadav's visit to JPNIC on Jayaprakash Narayan's birth anniversary.
In the morning, the barricades had vanished from the premises, and banners by LDA reading "maintenance and renovation work in progress" were hung on the JPNIC's main gate....
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