Prayagraj, May 5 -- Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya launched a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav over the assembly election results in five states.

He said that political parties which have "insulted women and obstructed their rights, "including the Congress, Samajwadi Party, TMC, and DMK, have been "taught a lesson by the public.""These parties, wherever they have been in power, have ignored development and instead focused on appeasement, encouraging casteism, nepotism, and protecting infiltrators. These election results are a strong message for such politics," he told reporters on Tuesday.

He warned that if the opposition still fails to learn from the verdi...