India, Feb. 21 -- Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said the Congress youth wing's shirtless protest at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi Friday was inappropriate, even as he maintained his broader criticism of the BJP-led central government.

"We may have differences within India, and the BJP government is indeed cheating us all. But that is a separate thing. What Congress did on the global platform was not appropriate. They should have refrained from doing something that brings shame to our country in front of foreign delegates and world representatives," Yadav said while speaking to party workers in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, as per news agency ANI.

Yadav, whose party is a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc alon...