Akhilesh Yadav and Brajesh Pathak have engaged in a social media exchange over political issues.
LUCKNOW: A social media spat has broken out between Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak, with both posting videos of the other eating “cashews”, as the SP and BJP gear up for the 2027 Assembly elections. He said, “Mukhiya hain besudh-bekabu aaju baaju kha rahe kaju,” (The boss is senseless, out of control, munching on cashews left and right today). The dishes are still delectable,” Pathak said. “There’s no need to state how great an enemy the BJP government, which is not even allowing the ‘PDA’ to be born in its hospitals, is to the ‘PDA’,” he wrote. Targeting the health minister, he said, “If the health minister can find time away from eating cashews, he should see to what extent his department has been filled with the poison of discrimination.
Akhilesh Yadav began the exchange by posting a video of Pathak eating, along with a satirical line. “Wow, what grandeur! Cashews, raisins, almonds, and a lavish spread of dishes adorn the table. It’s a royal feast of pomp and splendour. In the platter of political pretence, there’s just dal-roti, but in the real one, it’s a feast of delicacies. This style of false simplicity is quite splendid too, sir. After all, if the show in politics is simple, so what? The SP uses PDA for Pichhde (backward), Dalit and Alpsankhyak (minority) communities. The BJP folks have fallen to the lowest level they could, now all that’s left is for the BJP government to fall.”