Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, on Monday, said the Uttar Pradesh assembly bypolls were a fight between those who believe in Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar and those who believe in Baba, alluding to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. This is a fight between those who believe in Babasaheb and those who believe in Baba. On one side are those who make and protect the Constitution; on the other side are those who destroy it, Akhilesh Yadav said in a post on X in Hindi. So far, the Constitution has protected the PDA; now the PDA will protect the Constitution Proclaim Unity. Jai Samvidhan, Jai PDA, he added. Before the Lok Sabha elections, the SP chief had coined the acronym PDA  — Pichhde, Dalit, Alpsankhyak (Backwards, Dalit and Minorities). In Uttar Pradesh, nine assembly seats are going to polls on November 20 —  Katehari (Ambedkar Nagar), Karhal (Mainpuri), Meerapur (Muzaffarnagar), Ghaziabad, Majhawan (Mirzapur), Sisamau (Kanpur Nagar), Khair (Aligarh), Phulpur (Prayagraj) and Kundarki (Moradabad).

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