Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav took a dig at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for sharing a dais with his junior colleague Ajay Mishra Teni in Lucknow and referred to Shah's remark during his speech on Friday that no “bahubali” can be found even if you look for them with binoculars.

Teni has been under a cloud over the recent Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which eight people were killed and his son Akash Mishra and his cohorts were arrested.

Akhilesh also tagged a photograph of the two ministers during a programme of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party organised in Lucknow on Friday.

"Jhoothi doorbeen lekar dhoondne ka dhong pura tha, jabki bagal mein chora jagat mein dhindora tha (the pretense of searching with false binoculars was complete, the person being searched was standing alongside)," the SP chief tweeted on Saturday.

Praising law and order situation under the Yogi Adityanath government, Shah had said, "Before 2017, seeing the poor condition of law and order in Uttar Pradesh, my blood would boil. During the previous government, girls and women could not come out of the house. There were two-three 'bahubalis' in every district but today, even if I look with binoculars, I do not see any 'bahubali' anywhere."

On October 3, four farmers were mowed down by Teni’s son Ashish Mishra and his aides in Tikuniya area of Lakhimpur Kheri. In retaliation, an angry mob lynched four people close to the Ashish Mishra. After much hullabaloo Ashish Mishra and some of his friends were arrested. While some farmers claimed that Ashish Mishra was driving one of the SUVs that mowed down the four farmers, Teni and his son vehemently denied the charge. Opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party and Congress, have demanded the dismissal of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra.