Akhilesh Yadav Spills Beans On Strategy For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls

Samajwadi Party (SP) on August 13 spilled beans on the "PDA formula" for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav announced the formation of its new Uttar Pradesh state executive unit, saying it follows the party's "PDA formula". The panel had been dissolved after the assembly elections last year.

Party chief Akhilesh Yadav recently spilled out his "PDA formula" for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as a combination of "Pichde (backward classes), Dalit and Alpasankhyak (minorities)". He said it would ensure the BJP bites the dust in the polls next year.

Senior SP member Mohammad Azam Khan's son Abdullah Azam Khan has been made the state secretary in the new panel.

"It (SP) has taken forward 'PDA' (backward, Dalits and minorities) in the list while trying to give due importance to the party cadre," the party's chief spokesperson Rajendra Chowdhury told PTI.

He said the SP's state executive for Uttar Pradesh will have Irfan ul Haq, C L Verma, Shyampal Bind, and R S Bind as its vice presidents, and Rajkumar Mishra as treasurer. The unit will have 61 secretaries, 48 members, and 62 special invitee members besides others, Chowdhury added.

He said the 182-member state executive was announced after it was approved by Akhilesh Yadav.

In what was seen as an attempt to revamp the party after the debacle in the assembly elections and the Lok Sabha by-polls in its bastions of Rampur and Azamgarh, the SP had dissolved the national, state, and district executive bodies of all its organisations last year. Only its state president Naresh Uttam Patel was retained.