Akhilesh extends support to RJD in Bihar polls

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday announced that his party will extend full support to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.

“We will fully support Lalu Prasad Yadav and Tejashwi in the Bihar elections. The scams committed by the BJP in Uttar Pradesh will be revealed there, and the people will be told the truth,” Yadav said while addressing reporters at party headquarters in Lucknow.

Akhilesh also remarked that BJP has no intention to make Chief Minister Nitish Kumar again and it will force him to retire. “They are using Nitish Kumar's name and face, but they won’t make him CM again. We once wanted to project him as the Prime Minister, but now look — he will be retired from even the CM post. The BJP will force him to retire,” Yadav said.

The former CM of Uttar Pradesh accused the saffron party of being hypocritical in its religious ideology. “Those who commit injustice, discriminate, and use children for politics cannot call themselves Sanatani,” he said.

Attacking UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Akhilesh said, “In today’s politics, merely wearing saffron robes does not make one a ‘baba’ or a yogi. True identity comes from thought and conduct.”

He said the BJP does not want to discuss fundamental problems. “But the people are waiting; the 2027 elections in Uttar Pradesh will be like no other poll you’ve seen before,” Akhilesh said.