A political storm erupted Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh over a controversial poster put up outside the Samajwadi Party office in Lucknow that features split faces of party chief Akhilesh Yadav and B R Ambedkar.BSP chief Mayawati took veiled potshots at Yadav while the BJP staged sit-ins and protests against the poster.
The SP has since dissociated itself from the poster, but the controversy has refused to die down with rival parties demanding an apology from Yadav.
“We won’t relent until the SP chief tenders apology,” said BJP cadres who staged a sit-in at the Ambedkar statue at Lucknow’s Hazratganj. Similar protests by the BJP were seen in other parts of the state.
The SP hit back at its rivals and suggested that the poster could be the work of the BJP.