Lucknow, Sept. 19 -- Uttar Pradesh Fisheries Minister and Nishad Party national president Sanjay Nishad on Saturday launched a sharp attack on Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav over his PDA politics and ongoing luxury car tour, alleging that leaders who have benefited from the votes and support of the poor have now forgotten their concerns.
Nishad said politics was founded on the idea that even the poorest sections of society could aspire to positions of power and that democratic institutions were created to represent the poor, landless, homeless and displaced.
"Those who thrive on the votes and money of the poor have forgotten the poor today," he alleged.
He said that those who practise politics in the name of the backward classe...