LUCKNOW, July 6 -- Attacking Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak on Saturday said the former CM underestimated the public's memory, but the people of the state were now alert and would no longer be misled by empty promises.

Reacting on Akhilesh's recent remarks, Pathak said the Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC) had been turned into a 'bastion of corruption' under the Samajwadi Party regime. "It was built with the hard-earned money of the public and it is not your personal property," Pathak said.

He further said the Yogi government rectified the misuse by passing a cabinet proposal to transfer the JPNIC to the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) for public use. The deput...