There was plan to project Adityanath as PM candidate during Maha Kumbh: Akhilesh Yadav
Prayagraj, Apr 20 (PTI): Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday suggested that there was a plan to project Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as a prime ministerial candidate during the recently held Maha Kumbh and alleged that the BJP leader made it a political event.
"They wanted to turn it into a political Kumbh, not a religious one. It was not a Kumbh for devotees, but for political purposes,” Yadav told reporters here.
"It is being heard that during the Maha Kumbh, there was a plan to announce his (Adityanath's) name as the prime ministerial face," the former chief minister said.
He also alleged severe mismanagement in the organisation of the Maha Kumbh 2025 here.
“Have you ever seen TV channels being given interviews during a Kumbh? Such arrangements were made here. This entire mismanagement has caused a major blot on the organisation of the event,” he claimed.
“In the future, you will understand even better. Many things might not reach me, but you live here — you know the truth,” Yadav said.
The SP chief also said that the opposition INDIA bloc will continue in the 2027 UP Assembly elections.
He attacked the BJP, alleging it was trying to grab land like the mafia through the Waqf (Amendment) Bill.
Yadav said that the "PDA (Backward, Dalits, and Minorities) would uproot the BJP" from the state in the 2027 assembly elections.
When asked about the INDIA bloc, he reiterated, "INDIA alliance is (present) and will remain", dispelling doubts about the fate of the alliance formed ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections.
"The BJP has brought the Waqf Amendment Bill so that it can snatch away land. Wherever they see land, they occupy it," he said and called the BJP "land mafia party".
He accused the ruling party of "snatching" people's money through demonetisation and GST and of diminishing reservation rights.
Yadav also promised an investigation into "mismanagement" in the Maha Kumbh, if his party comes to power in 2027 elections.
The SP chief claimed the government provided inaccurate figures regarding casualties and financial gains during the event, and alleged that drones and CCTV surveillance failed during the January stampede.
"When drones and CCTVs were needed the most (at the time of the stampede), they were either closed or were shut down," he claimed.
Yadav also accused the government of pressuring the relatives of stampede victims to change the cause of death.
Regarding SP MP Ramji Lal Suman's controversial statement on Rana Sanga, Yadav said, "The history which shows each other as superior and inferior, the history which stops our progress, that history should be allowed to remain."
Yadav provided journalists with a booklet of his suggestions for the Prayagraj Maha Kumbh 2025, originally posted on social media, and a Harvard University study on the 2013 Prayagraj Kumbh Mela.
He was in Prayagraj to attend the wedding of SP state president Shyam Lal Pal's daughter.
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Mangaluru: Bajpe police arrests young man for alleged derogatory posts against police
Bajpe: Police have arrested a youth for allegedly posting derogatory and defamatory content against the Bajpe police on social media.
The arrested accused has been identified as Abhishek M. (23), a resident of Katipalla, Surathkal.
According to the police, Abhishek posted a photograph of Bajpe Nisarga Hotel on his Instagram account mr_a_titude_22, alleging that accused persons in a murder case under the jurisdiction of the Bajpe police station were being treated “like royalty” by the police and were being served beef meals from the hotel every day. In his post, he further accused the police of colluding with criminals and misusing their authority, stating that public trust in the police was being betrayed.
Following which, the Bajpe police registered a case and arrested the accused.
Police records reveal that Abhishek is already facing multiple criminal cases. A case of murder, attempt to murder, assault and robbery has been registered against him at the Surathkal police station. At the same time, a robbery case has also been registered at the Kaup police station.
After his arrest, Abhishek was handed over to the custody of the CEN police for further investigation. He was later produced before a court, police said.
