On Shah’s cue, Adityanath announced the university will be named after Maharaja Suheldev, an icon of the backward Rajbhar community influential in 24 districts of Purvanchal and Awadh. The Rajbhars form the voter base of Akhilesh’s new ally, the Om Prakash Rajbhar-led Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP).
If Shah and Adityanath were challenging the SP on its own turf, Akhilesh was daring the BJP by launching his ‘Vijay Yatra’ the same day from Gorakhpur, the chief minister’s home district. “Yogi ji did not give the (promised) laptops to the youth because he does not know how to operate a laptop himself. UP needs a yogya (able) government, not a Yogi government,” he told a gathering in Gorakhpur’s Kusumhi Bazar.
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