Samajwadi Party national president and MP Akhilesh Yadav with party MP Dimple Yadav during a news conference, at the party office in Lucknow, Wednesday
She, however, said she would have joined the protest anyways even if denied permission. I thank the party president for acknowledging our determination to join the protest,” Dimple said as Akhilesh smiled. “It was chaos all over,” she said. “We could have walked back out of the situation but the human compassion and that mother in me gave us the strength to reach out to the students and help them,” she said.
“I would like to thank our national president for allowing us to participate in the (Jantar Mantar) protest. “We had actually decided that we will take part in the stir even before we spoke to party chief about it in the morning. We had our sports shoes on. Dimple then narrated how they had to walk to the protest site as movement of vehicles was restricted in the area. She recalled how police baton charged students who were left with blood trickling down their wounds on their heads, how cops used stun-batons to give electric shocks to students.
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party MP from Mainpuri Dimple Yadav on Wednesday thanked party president Akhilesh Yadav for allowing all women party MPs to join the Gen Z stir at Jantar Mantar. Had he denied permission, I don’t know what we would have done… possibly we would have gone anyways,” she said as she looked at Akhilesh Yadav sitting besides him at a news conference in Lucknow on Wednesday.