Lucknow, Nov. 6 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) National President Akhilesh Yadav has alleged that the rapidly growing inequality and economic disparity in the country's economy is a matter of deep concern for society.

He said that when the wealth of the country's 1 percent richest people has increased by 62 percent in the last few years, it is not difficult to understand how much wealth is left for the remaining 99 percent of the population.

Posting on his social media account today on the day of first phase polling in Bihar, Akhilesh Yadav said that this widening economic gap has deepened not only economic discrimination but also social discrimination.

He said that when immense wealth and resources are concentrated in the hands of some section...