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Akhilesh Yadav's 'PDA': No love lost between UP's political outfits

Opposition in the state has fractured along widening fault lines - those elected must repair the cracks. RADHIKA RAMASESHAN writes

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UP BJP President Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary with Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya

5 min read Last Updated : Jul 30 2023 | 9:49 PM IST

In June this year, Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party (SP) president and the Opposition leader in the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly, unveiled a “new formula” to boost the SP’s prospects before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls with a mirthful acronym, PDA.

The expanded form is Pichde (backward classes), Dalit, Alpasankhyak (minorities).

It suggested that this would be the social base on which the SP would work upon. The only notable difference between the party’s past exertions to enhance its prospects and, importantly, challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was that while Akhilesh actively courted the upper castes to shed the

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