Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday demanded an immediate halt to the demolition of buildings in the Dal Mandi area in Varanasi, which is being carried out as part of a road-widening project.

Calling it a “political demolition”, the former chief minister alleged the BJP government was razing the buildings and houses in the area as people there did not vote for the BJP in the elections.

“Yeh koi development project nahi hai. Yeh political project hai. Political project ko pura karne ke liye, divide and rule ka rasta apna rahein hain (This is not a development project. It is a political project. And for its completion, the government is adopting the route of divide and rule)… They (the BJP government) are doing this because they cannot win in that area. They want to scare people

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