Wednesday’s UP budget session descended into mayhem with SP members heckling and document-snatching, prompting a ferocious response from Fisheries Minister Sanjay Nishad. The Nishad Party supremo targeted Akhilesh Yadav directly, invoking a folk saying: ‘Plundered by our own, sunk in calm seas.’
In a candid exchange, Nishad dissected SP’s legacy: 30 years of misrule exposed by Sachar Committee revelations on deceit. ‘PDA is their ploy – branding backward, Dalits, minorities while doling out agony, despair, and indignity,’ he asserted. Demanding accountability, he questioned any aid to Nishads amid siphoned Delhi funds grabbed violently.
Tragedy underscores his fury: community leaders eliminated during SP eras, denied CBI scrutiny. ‘Buffalo hunts for allies, but murderer hunts for us? Unacceptable.’ He invoked justice reports highlighting quota disparities – ample for milkmen (27%), leatherfolk (23%), none for the rest. ‘Gluttons feasting on fishermen’s toil.’
Affirming SC credentials via presidential decree, Nishad ridiculed the 1994 OBC maneuver. He warned against provocative film titles engineered for buzz, pushing for regulatory films. Addressing Madani’s end-times rhetoric, he grieved educated Muslims’ ruin by opportunists, affirming brotherhood in India. Nishad gently nudged Swami Avimukteshwaranand toward temple pulpits, away from hustings.
Nishad’s unfiltered outburst amplifies calls for equity, casting shadows on SP’s inclusivity claims and bolstering his profile as a tenacious advocate in UP’s fractious politics.