Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister hits back at PM on ‘inexperience’ barb

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi questioned as to how the SP chief could form a coalition with ‘those who tried to murder’ his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh said Modi’s advisors could have done better by telling him to cite a more recent example of Firozabad. 

“Why did he travel so far to 1984 to create anger in me against Congress. He could have mentioned Firozabad where Congress’ state unit chief (Raj Babbar) defeated us (in bypoll),” he said, adding they were revisiting such an old incident only because they have already ‘lost’ the elections.

“They termed me as inexperienced but one can ride the bicycle (SP symbol) only after falling down at least once. I have learnt to ride bicycle and that too with great speed so that neither the elephant nor the lotus can come anywhere near,” he said.