As SP X post triggers protest, FIR, Akhilesh says won’t happen again

Akhilesh said those statements may seem appropriate at Pathak’s personal level, but they cannot be justified in any way “on the scale of dignity and decency.

Sources said that Akhilesh on Saturday not just got the post deleted, but also took assurance from party workers that they would not repeat such an act in the future. Sources said that Akhilesh directed them to keep their language “decent” and write social media posts with restraint.

Meanwhile, he said by “talking dirty about someone’s DNA”, the Deputy CM did not accuse a person, “but his lineage and origin going back to ages”. “As we are Yaduvanshis related to Lord Krishna, your attack on our DNA hurts us religiously… We know that your religious personality is not such that you would make malicious comments against Lord Krishna, but a normal innocent person can take your comment otherwise. Hence, you are requested not to forget your morality while doing politics and hurt religious sentiments,” Yadav said.

He further asked Pathak to “protect and maintain the purity of politics” and turn his “conscience towards the right direction by maintaining appropriate distance from negative politics.”

Meanwhile, responding in an X post in Hindi, Pathak said, “Going by the words used by Samajwadi Party’s media cell, it does not seem that this is still the party of Ram Manohar Lohia and Janeshwar Mishra. The so-called ‘socialists’ have forgotten George Saheb’s words that camps should be organised and people should be educated.” He asked Akhilesh to make the SP members read Ram Manohar Lohia and Jayaprakash Narayan and make them listen to Pandit Janeshwar’s speeches, “so as socialism reflects in their behaviour and speech”.

He further wrote, “hey have turned socialism into a laboratory of abuse, arrogance and low-grade comments…”