Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday, 30 May 2026, launched a pointed political broadside against the Uttar Pradesh BJP government through a lengthy poem posted on X, cataloguing what he described as governance failures, communal bias, and abuse of state power under the current administration.

Context

The post, written entirely in Hindi verse, lists a series of accusations against those in power — without naming any individual directly. Each couplet ends with the refrain 'wale' (those who do), and the poem closes with the line: 'ab hain jaanewale lautkar na aanewale' — 'now they are leaving, never to return.' The rhetorical device is a staple of Hindi political oratory, allowing Yadav to catalogue grievances while maintaining the cadence of a public address.

Among the charges levelled in verse: dropping genuine criminal cases while filing fabricated ones, using bulldozers to demolish homes and shops, harassing citizens over electricity and water supply, using abusive language against journalists, and taking foreign trips under the guise of botanical research. The poem also accuses the ruling dispensation of bestowing patronage on co-caste loyalists and spreading communal poison.

Policy Backdrop

Several lines in the poem map directly onto documented policy disputes in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP government's bulldozer-led anti-encroachment drives, which began in 2017, have been a recurring flashpoint, with opposition parties arguing they disproportionately target minorities and political opponents. The verse line 'bulldozer se ghar-dukaan dhaanewale' ('those who demolish homes and shops with bulldozers') directly invokes that controversy.

The poem's reference to Shiksha Mitras — para-teachers employed in state government schools — echoes a long-running dispute over their honorarium and service conditions that has periodically erupted since 2017. Similarly, the mention of ASHA and Anganwadi workers being 'misled' reflects grievances over wages and welfare that these frontline health and nutrition workers have raised repeatedly. The line targeting lawyers — 'advocates pe laathi chalwanewale' ('those who wield batons on advocates') — alludes to reported clashes between police and the legal community in the state.

The reference to Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi — one of Hinduism's most sacred cremation grounds — points to infrastructure and development works there that generated public controversy between 2019 and 2021. Yadav's verse accuses the government of having the ghat's structure broken.

On reservation, the poem accuses the ruling side of 'running scissors over reservation' — a metaphor for diluting constitutionally mandated quotas — and of inflicting 'gross oppression' on the PDA coalition, the Samajwadi Party's own social alliance of Pichhda (OBC), Dalit, and Alpsankhyak (minority) communities, which has been central to the party's electoral strategy since the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

Stakeholders and Impact

The poem names or implies a wide range of constituencies: journalists, lawyers, teachers, ASHA workers, Anganwadi workers, Shiksha Mitras, religious minorities, OBC communities, Dalits, and saints. By aggregating these groups into a single verse, Yadav appears to be reinforcing the PDA coalition's breadth ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

The line 'satta sajatiya pe kripa barsaanewale' — 'those who shower favour on their own caste in power' — is a direct attack on what the Samajwadi Party characterises as caste-based patronage by the current dispensation. This framing is aimed squarely at consolidating non-dominant caste voters behind the SP's platform.

What's Next

With Uttar Pradesh assembly elections due in 2027, political messaging of this intensity is expected to escalate. Yadav's use of verse — a format that travels easily via social media and resonates in Hindi-speaking audiences — signals that the Samajwadi Party intends to fight the next election on a broad welfare-and-rights platform rather than a single issue. State budget sessions, any new government orders on reservation policy, and the resolution of Shiksha Mitra and ASHA worker pay disputes will serve as near-term tests of whether the grievances listed in this poem translate into organised electoral pressure.