Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday tweeted a collage of photographs in response to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘parivarwad’ (dynasty) charge against him. The collage includes photographs of all the BJP leaders whose sons and daughters are also leaders in the party.
The response came days ahead of bypoll to the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, which fell vacant after the death of Samajwadi Party founder and Akhilesh’s father Mulayam Singh Yadav. The Samajwadi Party has chosen Dimple Yadav, wife of Akhilesh Yadav, as its candidate in Mainpuri while the BJP’s pick is former SP MP Raghuraj Singh Shakya.
The BJP leaders campaigning in Mainpuri have been accusing the Yadav clan of practising dynastic politics. Akhilesh’s Twitter post lists veteran BJP leaders BS Yediyurappa, Rajnath Singh, Raman Singh, Kailash Vijayvargiya and several others whose relatives are holding posts in the party organisation.
He captioned the collage ‘Picture abhi baki hai (The picture is not over yet)”.
“Why are such questions about the dynasty not put to the BJP leaders with equal force?” Akhilesh exclaimed.
