{"id":33778,"date":"2026-10-07T15:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=33778"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:48:58","slug":"we-could-sit-down-to-eat-samosas-akhilesh-yadav-on-not-attending-kharges-india-bloc-lunch-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=33778","title":{"rendered":"‘We could sit down to eat samosas’: Akhilesh Yadav on not attending Kharge’s INDIA bloc lunch | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party<\/a> chief Akhilesh Yadav<\/a> on Wednesday clarified his decision to skip Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s lunch meeting for INDIA bloc MPs, saying opposition leaders could meet over tea or even sit down for samosas in the future.Asked about his absence from the lunch, Yadav said, \u201cIt won\u2019t just be about a single lunch. In the future, you might hear about a meeting over tea. We could all sit down and eat samosas too\u2014if a \u2018samosa\u2019 slogan were to be raised, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. Diplomacy will continue\u201dThe SP chief had participated in the INDIA bloc’s protest on the first day on Tuesday, when opposition MPs marched towards the Election Commission demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation. Yadav was among the leaders detained by Delhi Police during the protest.However, he did not join Rahul Gandhi<\/a> and other Congress leaders in their subsequent sit-in at Akashvani Bhavan, where they remained for hours before being detained. Yadav later returned to Lucknow.On Wednesday, Yadav and other SP MPs also stayed away from Kharge’s lunch at Sagar Ratna on Janpath and the protest march to Jantar Mantar that followed. The absence came amid questions over coordination between the SP and Congress, the two major constituents of the INDIA bloc, ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.The lunch was organised as opposition MPs sought to chalk out their next steps in the campaign against the Election Commission over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls and their allegations of \u201cvote chori\u201d. The MPs later boarded buses for Jantar Mantar, where they staged another protest demanding CEC’s resignation.<\/p>\n

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