Samajwadi Party workers cut tomato-shaped cake on Akhilesh Yadav's birthday
The Hindu
The event was held in Peer Govardhanpur in the Rohania assembly segment of the Varanasi parliamentary constituency.
Samajwadi Party workers in Varanasi celebrated its chief Akhilesh Yadav's 50th birthday on Saturday by cutting a tomato-shaped cake and distributing tomatoes among people to underline its rising price.
In Amethi district, party workers wrote "HBD AKHILESH JI" using paddy seedlings on an irrigated field.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati greeted Yadav on his birthday.
"Birthday greetings to the national president of Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav. May Lord Ram give good health to you," Mr. Adityanath said in a tweet in Hindi.
Ms. Mayawati wished Mr. Yadav good health and a long life.
In a tweet in Hindi, Priyanka Gandhi said, "@yadavakhilesh ji, wish you a very happy birthday. May God keep you healthy and give you a long life." A Samajwadi Party worker who organised the celebration in Varanasi said they could have distributed sweets but "even the sweets have become expensive".
"We always celebrate the birthday of our leader with pomp. But, this time, the price rise is at an all-time high. We could have distributed sweets but even the sweets have become expensive. Tomatoes are priced at ₹120 per kg. In our villages, we eat chapatis with tomato chutney, but even that is being snatched away from our plates," Ajay Fauji told PTI.
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