Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022 | SP, ASP trade charges on failure of alliance talks
The Hindu
Akhilesh insulted Bahujan Samaj: Azad
Talks for an alliance between the Samajwadi Party and the Azad Samaj Party headed by Dalit leader Chandra Shekhar Azad in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh election have apparently failed. Mr. Azad on Saturday said his outfit would not get into an alliance with the SP, accusing its president Akhilesh Yadav of insulting the “bahujan samaj”.
“Akhileshji is yet to understand the meaning of social justice. Social justice is not just talking about it. We are Kanshi Ram’s people. We talk of ‘jiski kitni sankhya bhari, uski utni hissedari’ [representation as per size in population],” Mr. Azad said here.
The Dalit leader from western U.P.’s Saharanpur, who stormed into the limelight through aggressive agitational Ambedkarite politics, said he held several meetings with Mr. Yadav but was left disappointed in the end.