Mayawati slams Akhilesh Yadav for meeting jailed party MLA

Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati on Wednesday slammed Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav for meeting a party MLA inside Azamgarh jail and alleged that it shows the party protects criminals.She also targeted Yadav for not offering the same support to party's jailed Muslim leaders.Yadav had visited the Azamgarh jail on Monday to meet party MLA Ramakant Yadav who is lodged there in a 20-year-old rioting case.In a tweet in Hindi, Mayawati said, "The sharp reaction over the Samajwadi Party chief going to the Azamgarh jail and meeting imprisoned party MLA Ramakant Yadav to express sympathy is natural. This shows the general belief that the SP guards these types of criminal elements."Mayawati accused Yadav of not meeting party's jailed Muslim leaders."Also, is it unreasonable for various organisations and common people to ask the SP chief why he does not go to jail to meet Muslim leaders when he has himself accused the BJP government in UP of implicating and putting SP leaders in jail in fake cases," she tweeted.Yadav had faced flak for not visiting party leader Azam Khan when he was lodged in Sitapur jail for over two years. Khan walked out of jail in May this year.The SP chief had in May met his party workers lodged in Azamgarh jail in connection with a case related to the assembly elections.Read all the Latest News, Trending News, Cricket News, Bollywood News,India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.