Bypoll to send strong message for future of UP politics: Akhilesh

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said the Milkipur bypoll is a direct contest between "people and administration", which would send a strong message for the future of Uttar Pradesh politics.

- HT Correspondent

LUCKNOW:

Addressing a rally in Milkipur on the last day of campaigning for the bypolls, he urged people to vote in favour of party candidate Ajeet Prasad on February 5. He also accused the UP government of mismanagement and underreporting of casualties in the stampede that took place at Mahakumbh on Mauni Amavasya.

"The government was giving hourly figures of people bathing at the Mahakumbh, but it was not able to tell the number of people who lost their lives in the stampede," he said.