By Admin 
In Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, the Indian National Congress on Tuesday (17 February 2026) surrounded the Uttar Pradesh Assembly and demonstrated on many issues. Reaction has come from former Uttar Pradesh CM and Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on the demonstration conducted by the Congress Party and the assembly siege.
On the Congress’s protest, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said, “This is the government which cannot accept opposition, it only keeps chanting its tune.” Akhilesh Yadav said that if he had faith in Lord Shri Ram ji and religion, then in this democracy, he would not have made our victorious Ram ji sit on the back seat in the Lok Sabha, but would have made him sit on the seat next to the PM.
‘Protest should be done with full preparation’
Akhilesh Yadav said, “If you have to protest then do it with full preparation, if one police baton comes then 50 of you should be ready, you should protest with full preparation.” On meeting the Election Commission, Akhilesh Yadav said, “We have sought time from the Election Commission, we will go to meet them as soon as we get time. They are not filling the names and forms of backward Dalit Muslims, we have to meet them in this regard.”
Targeted at CM
On Chief Minister Yogi, Akhilesh Yadav said, “Chief Minister Bisht ji does not know anything. His colleagues have never sung Vande Mataram, no leader of the Sangh has ever said Vande Mataram, Maa Tujhe Salaam. Chief Minister Bisht Saheb does not know anything, he is engaged in dishonesty. He is making our Ram ji sit on the last bench, in the coming elections he will be thrown out of the assembly itself.”
On water spilling from a water tank in Mahoba, UP, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said, “That is the tank of their corruption, at many places they have worked only through corruption.”