LUCKNOW, March 31 -- Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday accused the state police of putting up barricades unnecessarily and claimed that he too was stopped on his way to Eidgah here. He said the Samajwadi Party would oppose the Waqf Amendment Bill in Parliament.

"There has not been such barricading. The police stopped me when I was coming here. I was stopped for about half an hour. The officers had no reply when I wanted to know about the reasons for being stopped. Is it dictatorship or emergency? Do they want to put pressure not to allow participation in programmes of others," said Yadav while speaking to media persons at the Eidgah.

Yadav said he has been visiting Eidgah consistently after 'Netaji' (Samajwadi Party patriar...