Akhilesh oppressed his relatives for power: Nirahua

Lucknow: Newly elected BJP MP from Azamgarh Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua’ on Sunday likened the Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav with the Mughal emperors, who he said oppressed their kin for the sake of power.

The actor-politician also called the Samajwadi Party (SP) a “samapatwadi” (vanishing) party due to its crumbling Muslim-Yadav vote bank. He said due to a new awakening among the Muslim and Yadav voters after 2014, the SP that used to claim “monopoly” over their vote. Nirahua, who had lost to Akhilesh Yadav in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Azamgarh, won the bypolls held for the seat last month. He defeated SP candidate Dharmendra Yadav in the opposition party’s bastion. The MP said the SP chief had smelt defeat in the byelections due to which he did not field his wife Dimple Yadav and instead nominated cousin Dharmendra Yadav to harm political career of the leader.