Lucknow: Pointing fingers at the BJP govt for ‘fake hoardings’ about Congress party seeking 200 seats as its share in UP polls, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said the move has only established the extent of unease within the saffron brigade over the coming together of the INDIA bloc for the 2027 assembly elections in the state.“The BJP is so frightened by the coming together of the INDIA bloc (for the UP polls) that they have put out fake hoarding,” Akhilesh said in a social media post attaching photographs of hoardings that have come up in different parts of the state on Sunday.The hoarding states that Congress party was entitled to over 200 seats in UP as an alliance partner of the SP for the 2027 elections to 403 assembly seats in the state.Political observers feel that such ‘covert’ tactics may actually help the INDIA bloc partners understand the importance of their ‘coming together come what may’ for the UP polls and give the Congress and SP a strong reason to shun their differences over seat sharing and join hands to take on the BJP in the assembly polls.Akhilesh said that the party was keeping a date-wise record of all such incidents along with names of the officials under whom such incidents were taking place.“The backhand dealings of all such officers will be exposed after the PDA is voted to form the govt in 2027,” Akhilesh said, adding that agencies right from ED and CBI to EOW would be deployed to probe threadbare the conduct of all such officials.He said municipal officers should be suspended for allowing fake hoardings to come up on govt property without permission and payment of the relevant fee. “No action is being initiated against such officers,” he said. The former UP CM said this was either because of corruption or pressure from the govt.“When such hoardings are installed clandestinely, it leads to loss of revenue because it comes up without paying the fee,” Akhilesh said, adding that if the fee has been paid, then receipts must have been issued as well, and in that case one will be able to establish the identity and political affiliation of the individuals behind such acts.
