Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi Party MLAs' mega march to UP Assembly | Pics
The Samajwadi Party's protest march Monday to Lucknow's Vidhan Bhavan - the heart of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly - was halted by police who cited a lack of permission. Samajwadi Party leader and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav sat in the middle of the road outisde his outfit's HQ and called the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of chief minister Yogi Adityanath 'anti-democracy (and) anti-Constitution'. "The government did not allow us to go to the legislature...the government did not allow us to participate in the condolence of an MLA (Arvind Giri of the BJP)," he told reporters. The Samajwadi Party's march comes ahead of the UP Assembly's monsoon session, which will likely be dominated by fierce opposition protests against inflation and unemployment in the state.
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Police halts Samajwadi Party legislators' march, prompting party boss and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav to sit on dharna.(Deepak Gupta/HT)
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Samajwadi Party MLAs march in Lucknow holding anti-government slogans. (Deepak Gupta/HT)
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Akhilesh Yadav sits on dharna in the middle of the road in Lucknow.(Deepak Gupta/HT)
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Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav leads legislators' (MLAs & MLCs) on a march on the opening day of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly's monsoon session.(Deepak Gupta/HT)
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Akhilesh Yadav with Samajwadi Party chief whip Manoj Pandey and other MLAs, MLCs, as they step out of the party's HQ holding placards with anti-government slogans.(Deepak Gupta/HT)
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