Ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said the Samajwadi Party’s name should be changed to ‘Samajwadi Yadav Parivar’, targeting party chief Akhilesh Yadav over the representation of Muslim leaders in constituencies such as Azamgarh and Firozabad.
Asaduddin Owaisi criticised Akhilesh Yadav over the Muzaffarnagar riots, alleging that around 50,000 people were displaced from their homes during the violence when the Samajwadi Party was in power in Uttar Pradesh.
“So tell me, the people of Muzaffarnagar and Kairana, isn’t it true that when Akhilesh was the Chief Minister, right on this land, you, we, the world saw with our own eyes how the Muzaffarnagar riots happened. “Whose government was it? It was the Samajwadi government. Who was the Chief Minister?
50,000 people were driven out of their homes,” he said. “Girls were attacked, and children were orphaned who had lived on their land in their villages for 100-100 years.
“Akhilesh Yadav, the name of your party should be changed from Samajwadi to Samajwadi Yadav Parivar,” Owaisi said while addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Kairana district on Sunday. They were left homeless,” he said. Akhilesh Yadav was the Chief Minister,” Owaisi said. He also alleged that mosques were demolished and “half encounters” were continuing in the state under the BJP-led government, but the opposition parties were “silent” and not raising the issue.
