Samajwadi Party

The FIR was lodged at the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow on the complaint of Shivendra Mishra. Maurya on Sunday sparked a major controversy after he demanded the deletion of "insulting comments and sarcasm" targeted at particular castes and sects in Ramcharitmanas.

Maurya said that certain portions of Ramcharitmanas insulted a particular class of people and should be changed. "I object to the insulting comments," he said. He even quoted certain verses from the Ramcharitmanas saying that Tulsidas mentions certain castes, all of which belong to the Hindu religion.

According to the strategists of the SP, the party which has boosted its political fortunes with the victory in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha and Khatauli Assembly by-elections, wants to maintain this momentum among its party workers till the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Therefore, the SP has decided that till the 2024 Lok Sabha elections it will continue to intensify its political attacks against the BJP government.

SP president Akhilesh Yadav accused the police and jail administration of acting as agents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Yadav, who visited Lucknow district jail to meet party worker Manish Agarwal, who was arrested earlier on Sunday

In a first, he has been completely focusing on Etawah, Mainpuri, Etah, Firozabad, Auraiya, Farrukhabad and Kannauj to strengthen 'Yadavland', which is seen as a strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

He asked his party worker to get tea from outside for him. "You never know, they may mix poison in my tea. I will drink my own tea and you people (cops) can drink your tea," he said. Akhilesh Yadav had reached the DGP headquarters unannounced

Calling for opposition parties to join hands, he said the process has already started. In a conversation with IANS, Akhilesh Yadav, a former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, said that programmes like Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra are proving to be preparations for the next Lok Sabha polls and by then, their impact will be felt.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's remark that the Samajwadi Party (SP) does not have a national perspective has sparked of a fresh round of the blame game between opposition parties, leaving the BJP smiling. SP president Akhilesh Yadav retorted by saying that his party's outlook is national and it has been making strong political interventions in the national interest.

Yadav was in Jhansi on Monday evening where he met jailed former SP MLA Deep Narain Yadav. The state government's action against SP MLA Irfan Solanki and Deep Narain was a strong message to the party to act in a similar fashion when it comes to power, the SP chief said.

RLD national convenor Anupam Mishra said, "We have received an invitation from the Congress party, but it is not possible for party president Jayant Chaudhary to participate in the Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra due to his being preoccupied with other events."