SP to hold Satyagraha to protest ‘dacoity’ in Milkipur bypolls: Awadesh Prasad MP

Ayodhya: Samajwadi Party will organise a 'Satyagraha' (protest) on February 27 to protest the "dacoity" in Milkipur Assembly bypolls, party MP Awadesh Prasad said on Sunday. BJP's candidate Chandrabhanu Paswan defeated Samajwadi Party's Ajit Prasad by a thumping margin of 61,710 votes in the Milkipur by-poll election that was held in the first week of February. Prasad said, Samajwadi Party is always prepared to fight injustice and atrocities. We have announced the 'Satyagrah' on February 27 because great injustice was done in Ayodhya, the land of Lord Rama. Bypoll in Milkipur assembly on February 5 was the biggest dacoity in Hindustan. It was a dacoity of democracy. It was the dacoity of the voting rights of citizens given by Baba Ambedkar. In this dacoity all the booths of the assembly was looted by government." The Milkipur bypoll was necessitated after local MLA Awadhesh Prasad vacated the seat following his win in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Faizabad, that also includes the Ayodhya assembly segment.The BJP has lost the Faizabad within five months of the consecration of Ram Temple. The SP has fielded Prasad's son in the bypoll, who got just 84,687 votes, over 60,000 less than Paswan's 1,46,397. Following BJP's triumphing win in the bypolls, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath targeted SP and said that the result will "put a full stop to the politics of 'pariwarwad' and lies." "The results of Milkipur by-elections will put a full stop to the politics of 'pariwarwad' and lies...The people have made it clear that no matter how much propaganda is done by the Samajwadi Party, public is going to punish them," CM Yogi said. Meanwhile, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav accused BJP of "misusing" electoral machinery to win the elections. "BJP cannot face the growing power of PDA on the basis of votes, that is why it tries to win by misusing the electoral machinery. The level of manipulation of officials required to carry out such electoral fraud may be possible in one assembly constituency, but this 'four hundred BC' will not work in 403 assemblies. BJP members also know this, that is why BJP members postponed the by-election of Milkipur. PDA means 90 per cent of the people have seen this fraud with their own eyes," Yadav wrote on X.