Lucknow, July 1 | Hoarding depicting Samajwadi Party SP leader Akhilesh Yadav as the future Prime Minister
Ahead of Akhilesh Yadav’s birthday on July 1, Samajwadi Party (SP) workers displayed numerous posters outside the SP office. Reports indicate that party members erected these hoardings to celebrate the party’s significant victory in Uttar Pradesh during the recent Lok Sabha elections.
The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance secured 43 Lok Sabha seats, reducing the BJP and its partners to 34, a notable decline from their 64-seat victory in the 2019 elections. Akhilesh Yadav triumphed over BJP’s incumbent MP by 170,076 votes, garnering 640,207 votes compared to Subrat Pathak’s 470,131 votes. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, 15 candidates contested from the Kannauj constituency.
SP leader Awadhesh Prasad also caused a political upset by defeating two-time BJP MP Lallu Singh in the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat in Ayodhya district.
This isn’t the first time posters have portrayed Akhilesh Yadav as the future Prime Minister. Earlier, on June 4, similar posters appeared in Kannauj celebrating the party chief as the ‘PM to be.’ In October 2023, a comparable poster was displayed at the Samajwadi Party’s Lucknow office by party spokesperson Fakhrul Hasan ‘Chaand.’ When asked about the poster, Hasan explained, “Akhilesh Yadav’s birthday is on July 1, but to express their love and respect, Samajwadi Party workers celebrate his birthday multiple times.”
Chaand added that party workers are hopeful and praying for Akhilesh Yadav to become the Prime Minister of India, allowing him to serve the nation.
However, Yadav downplayed the “Future PM” hoardings in Lucknow, stating that one does not become prime minister simply by putting up posters.
Similar hoardings with slogans like “We trust Akhilesh to lead the state and the nation, the country needs a new PM” were also seen in various locations in the state capital before the 2019 general elections.
