Lucknow, July 6 -- State panchayati raj minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav by calling his PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) formula "fake" and challenging him to declare a Muslim as his party's chief ministerial candidate if it was genuine.

Rajbhar also accused the SP of fueling caste tensions, citing the Brahmin-Yadav conflict in Etawah and questioning Yadav's outreach to Brahmins in Azamgarh. "Akhilesh talks about videos, but why did he organise religious rituals for Brahmins? His words and actions don't match," he said, adding that the SP was lagging far behind in the 2027 political race. "The Yogi government will return to power," he asserted.

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