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'Everyone knows who is the biggest mafia in the state,' says SP chief in attack on ruling BJP

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has dared the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh to stop the PDA pathshala started by his party.

In the wake of the closure of several primary schools by the state in the name of merger, he said: "Police cannot stop PDA Pathshala. CM Yogi himself should come to the Pathshala and see the situation there. The government itself has accepted that it has closed many schools while some have been merged. SP workers will continue to teach students until new teachers are recruited in those schools."

The SP president was speaking to the media after paying tributes to late Janeshwar Mishra on his birth anniversary at the Janeshwar Mishra Park.

"The sad thing is that even the Britishers did not register an FIR against anyone for studies. This government thinks it will shut down our PDA school with the help of police. We socialists take a pledge that until the government sends a teacher-principal there, the PDA school will continue to run," he said.