{"id":10041,"date":"2026-08-08T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=10041"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:46:59","slug":"changing-colours-like-a-chameleon-mayawati-hits-akhilesh-over-pandit-twist-in-sps-pda-formula-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=10041","title":{"rendered":"‘Changing colours like a chameleon’: Mayawati hits Akhilesh over ‘Pandit’ twist in SP’s PDA formula | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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NEW DELHI: BSP<\/a> supremo Mayawati<\/a> on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Samajwadi Party<\/a>, accusing it of changing its political position for electoral gains after SP chief Akhilesh Yadav gave a new interpretation to the party\u2019s PDA formula.BSP chief Mayawati alleged that the SP was now trying to attract Brahmin voters after noticing growing support for the BSP among upper-caste communities, particularly Brahmins.Her remarks came after Akhilesh Yadav, while addressing a Brahmin Sammelan in Lucknow earlier this week, said the \u201cP\u201d in the SP\u2019s PDA formula — Pichhde, Dalit, Alpsankhyak, could also stand for \u201cPandit\u201d. He also accused the BJP government of targeting Brahmins.In a post on X, Mayawati said, “As is well known, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is an Ambedkarite party dedicated to the welfare of all sections of society, implementing the policy and principle of ‘Sarvajan Hitaya and Sarvajan Sukhaya,’ and the four governments it formed in UP were also run on this very basis, whereas the Samajwadi Party (SP) keeps changing colours like a chameleon, openly and evidently, for the sake of its narrow casteist politics and electoral interests, etc.”Mayawati then took aim at the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party over its latest interpretation of the PDA formula, alleging that the party was changing the meaning of \u201cP\u201d from \u201cPichhde\u201d to \u201cPandit\u201d to attract Brahmin voters.“In this very sequence, after first promoting ‘P’ in their so-called ‘PDA’–meaning (Backward, Dalit, Minority)–as ‘Pichhde’ (Backward), now, upon seeing the upper-caste society, especially the Brahmin community, rapidly joining the BSP and party candidates being nominated on that very basis, the SP, feeling unsettled, has now changed ‘P’ to ‘Pandit,’ which is nothing short of another living proof of their political deception and trickery, if not, then what else is it?” the post read.Mayawati also urged voters from all communities to remain alert against what she called the SP\u2019s \u201cnarrow casteist politics\u201d. She argued that such strategies might bring short-term electoral gains but would not serve the interests of society as a whole.<\/p>\n

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