Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav criticised the BJP amid excavation work in the Sambhal district in Uttar Pradesh.
“They will keep searching like this, and one day, by digging and digging, they will end up digging their own government,” he said in Etawah on Monday.
He was in Etawah to attend the function organised to mark the birth anniversary of former PM Chaudhary Charan Singh at Charan Singh Degree College at Hevra, near his native town Saifai.
Calling the BJP government “dictatorial”, Yadav said, “From ancient times to the present, autocratic governments have never lasted long, and one should look at the fate of Ravana and Duryodhan.”
“Those in power today seem to cherish the idea that they will remain in power for eternity. The people have seen through their game, and they gave a hint to the BJP during the June 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP will be shown the door in the UP assembly elections in 2027,” Yadav claimed.
Sources, however, maintain that despite the jibe at the excavations in Sambhal by Akhilesh Yadav, the SP is concerned over the turn of events in Sambhal after the violent incidents on November 24.
Local people had engaged in heavy stone-pelting on an ASI team that had gone to Jama Masjid, Sambhal, as per the court-ordered survey. Five people were killed in the incident.
The discovery of temples in Sambhal and many other districts of UP, and the koop’ (well) and baoli’ (stepwell) following excavations by the ASI in Chandausi and Sambhal, has led to apprehensions in the party that this could trigger a fresh upsurge in Hindutva sentiment in Uttar Pradesh and beyond its boundaries, sources said.
