Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday took a swipe at the state government for allegedly omitting the names of both deputy chief ministers from official publicity material for the Deepotsav celebrations in Ayodhya.

In a post on X, Yadav shared a couplet in Hindi, questioning the significance of the deputy chief ministers in the BJP-led government.

''Those who didn't even find space in the advertisement, what importance do they have left in the government?'', Yadav wrote.

The SP chief questioned whether the posts of deputy chief ministers in the Uttar Pradesh government had effectively been done away with, noting that while names of junior ministers featured in the advertisements, those of deputy CMs were missing.

''Is this a case of

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