Akhilesh Yadav honours Jayaprakash Narayan amid security concerns

Samajwadi Party SP chief Akhilesh Yadav garlanded a bust of Jayaprakash Narayan mounted on a vehicle outside his residence where hundreds of his party workers had gathered on Friday reported PTIThis gathering of party workers was owing to the advice from authorities discouraging the SP chief from visiting the JP International Centre JPNIC amid security concernsYadav had arrived at JPNIC on Thursday night criticising the Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath for blocking the main entrance with tin sheets seemingly to prevent his entryOn Friday morning he further condemned the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP government for putting up barricades near his house on Vikramaditya Marg to stop lsquoSamajwadisrsquo from visiting the site and paying tribute to JP Narayan on his birth anniversaryA large group of SP workers assembled outside Yadavs residence and the uncertainty surrounding his planned visit to JPNIC remainedAround 1030 am Yadav surrounded by party workers wearing red caps and raising slogans alongside party flagsgarlanded the bust of NarayanHe was joined by prominent SP leaders including Lal Bihari Yadav Rajendra Choudhary and Leader of Opposition Mata Prasad PandeyThe SP chief expressed his frustration stating On the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan ji we go to the JPNIC museum every time to celebrate But I dont know why this government stops us from doing itThis blockade by the BJP is not being done for the first time it has blocked all good work However today standing on the road we are paying tribute to the JanNayak This government wants to stop us from garlanding but we have done it here on the road itself Yadav told the gathering as per PTIThe former Uttar Pradesh chief minister made serious allegations regarding the memorial at JPNIC suggesting it is being kept under cover due to a conspiracy to sell it He said Imagine there is a government which wants to sell a museumEarlier the Lucknow Development Authority LDA had advised against Yadavs visit due to ongoing construction work at the siteIt is to be informed that the Engineering Department Lucknow Development Authority has provided a report regarding the updated status of the work site in which the JP Narayan Convention Centre project is still under constructionrdquoThe construction material is kept in an unplanned manner and due to the rainy season there is a possibility of the presence of unwanted living creatures The site has not been found suitable for garlandingvisiting from the security point of view of Akhilesh Yadav former chief minister who has ZPlus security the LDA said in its letter dated October 10Yadav took to social media to share videos and images of the heavy security presence and barricades near his residence lsquo rsquo hellip pictwittercomoqAO6g8Qu8mdash Akhilesh Yadav yadavakhilesh October 11 2024Whether it is the BJP people or their government their every action is a symbol of negativity To prevent the Samajwadi people from garlanding the statue of JP Narayan Ji on his birth anniversary like last time barricades have been put up around our private residence to stop them he posted on X formerly Twitter in HindiThe SP chief accused the BJP of hindering progress in various areas such as harmony peace reservation policies farmers welfare womens safety youth development employment generation and development of PDAs pichhde Dalit lpsankhyakThe BJP has always been against freedom fighters and the freedom movement They have learnt from the colonial powers and supported them secretly Everyone is saying today that they dont want the BJP Yadav saidSenior SP leader Shivpal Singh Yadav also criticised the state governments actions _____ pictwittercomWHfFJpr2YYmdash Shivpal Singh Yadav shivpalsinghyad October 11 2024The BJP intoxicated with power wants to barricade democracy The system of power can never prevail over the system of the people Government learn a lesson from the past Dictatorship does not last long in a democracy he posted on X along with videos of security deploymentLast year Yadav had similarly climbed over a gate at JPNIC to pay tribute to Narayanrsquos statue installed by his governmentThis JPNIC the museum of socialists statue of JP Narayan and there are things inside on how we can understand socialism he told reporters outside the Centre around midnightHe questioned What is the government hiding by erecting these tin sheds Is it possible that they are getting ready to sell it or want to give it to someoneWith inputs from PTI