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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Pankaj Shah | TNN

Uttar Pradesh elections: BJP tries to paint Samajwadi Party in minority appeasement colour

LUCKNOW: The flurry of pointed remarks unleashed at Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav by the top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ranks — "Abba Jaan", "Akhilesh Ali Jinnah" and "Wayde Azam" — has once again brought the political gaze on saffron outfit's deft attempts to bracket SP tightly against the minority vote bank and differentiate it with the larger social coalition of Hindu sub-castes.

BJP sources said that the party is working on a strategy to disturb SP's plan to expand its reach beyond the Muslim-Yadav consolidation to raise itself as the most potent rival of saffron outfit in the UP elections.

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