Lucknow, June 20 -- Akhilesh Yadav, the national president of the Samajwadi Party and Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, on Friday expressed deep concern over the state of the teachers and the education department in UP.

Addressing a press conference, Yadav emphasised the importance of education and the role of teachers in shaping society.

"Recently, through newspapers, we have seen government decisions that have deeply worried us. We are concerned because if education is deliberately destroyed as part of a conspiracy, what will become of our society? We all know that Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) was a teacher himself. And being a teacher, that identity within him never faded, whether it was the Legislative Assembly or Parliament, ...