New Delhi, Feb. 6 -- Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has come out strongly against the New Education Policy, calling it a "conspiracy" to hand over universities to industrialists.

While addressing a protest by the DMK students wing against the University Grants Commission (UGC) draft rules on Thursday in Delhi, Yadav declared that his party supports the protest and will never back the policy.

"...Samajwadi Party supports this protest against the New Education Policy that the central govt is bringing," he said.

The Samajwadi Party chief drew on the words of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who once cautioned that excessive support for industrialists would ultimately lead to politicians becoming their servants. Yadav sees...