Lucknow, Aug. 1 -- Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has claimed that U-turn of BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on merger of schools is a moral defeat of its anti-education policy and a big victory for PDA Pathshala movement.

" The BJP government has ruined the education system of the state in eight years and now they want to keep the PDA and the poor away from education under a conspiracy. Samajwadi people will not let the BJP's anti-education conspiracy policy succeed. BJP people should listen carefully and see with open eyes that we will not let anyone snatch the right to education of children," he said here in a statement on Friday.

SP president said that the BJP government is scared of the huge public support that the PDA Pat...