Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday, June 7, 2026, sharply attacked the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, invoking a recent Allahabad High Court stricture on the state police to argue that the ruling party has forfeited any moral right to govern.

Context

Yadav opened his post with a pointed aphorism — 'Jis yug mein police hi apradhi ban jaye wahi kalyug hai' [The age in which the police itself becomes criminal is the dark age] — framing the current moment as a civilisational failure of governance. He cited the Allahabad High Court's 'strict observations' on policing excesses in Uttar Pradesh as evidence that the BJP government lacks the moral authority to remain in power.

He argued that words such as ethics, impartiality, integrity, honesty, and justice are simply absent from the BJP's vocabulary, and accused the party of converting the state police into what he called a 'bhrashtputli' — a puppet of corruption — that takes the law into its own hands for political advantage.

Policy Backdrop

The BJP has governed Uttar Pradesh since the 2017 assembly elections, with law and order positioned as a central plank of its administration. The Samajwadi Party has, throughout this period, accused the state government of deploying the police as a partisan instrument against political opponents and ordinary citizens.

Opposition parties across Indian states routinely invoke High Court rebukes to challenge the moral legitimacy of ruling dispensations on policing matters. Such exchanges typically intensify ahead of electoral cycles and often pivot on judicial observations about constitutional compliance. The Allahabad High Court has, on multiple occasions over recent years, commented on the conduct of the Uttar Pradesh Police in specific cases before it.

Stakeholders and Impact

Yadav directed a pointed warning at police officers he described as corrupt, listing two reminders: first, that the BJP is no one's true ally; and second, that the Constitution will endure while the current BJP dispensation is, in his words, in its 'final phase' and will not return once it leaves. The post was tagged with the hashtags #असफल_मुख्यमंत्री_उप्र [Failed Chief Minister of UP] and #पक्षपाती_मुख्यमंत्री_उप्र [Partisan Chief Minister of UP], signalling a sustained campaign targeting the sitting Chief Minister.

The remarks are directed at Uttar Pradesh's estimated 25 crore-plus citizens who interact with the state's police machinery, as well as at serving police personnel who Yadav appears to be urging to reflect on their constitutional obligations rather than political loyalties.

What's Next

Attention will now turn to any forthcoming Allahabad High Court hearings on related petitions and the Uttar Pradesh government's formal response to the judicial observations Yadav has cited. The BJP is expected to rebut the charges, as it has consistently done in the face of SP criticism on law-and-order. With the Uttar Pradesh political calendar heating up, the opposition's use of judicial scrutiny as a campaign tool is likely to intensify in the weeks ahead.