Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on June 25 targeted the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Rashtriya Lok Dal, the Janata Dal (United) and other Opposition parties and alleged that while these parties called themselves followers of socialists Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia, they were colluding with the Congress, which trampled democracy by imposing Emergency and against which these socialists fought.
“People doing politics in the name of JP and Lohia are with the Congress, today which weakened democracy by declaring Emergency in the country on June 25, 1975. The SP has a long history of extending support even when it is not asked. In 2004, the Congress did not want the support of the SP, still the latter supported it,” said Mr. Adityanath in Noida, while inaugurating and laying foundation stone for development projects worth ₹1,719 crore.
