Lucknow: Amid ongoing tensions between the ruling and opposition events in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Celebration chief Akhilesh Yadav visited former UP minister Anupama Jaiswal, who’s hospitalized with burns sustained when a statue was set on hearth.
In Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) employees are burning effigies of Congress and Samajwadi Celebration leaders after the Modi authorities’s constitutional modification invoice was rejected in parliament.
In Baraichi on Saturday, Jaiswal was burning effigies of opposition stalwarts Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav, who opposed the invoice, when the incident occurred. She suffered burns on her head, hair and face and was admitted to Lucknow’s Medanta Hospital.
Akhilesh visited the hospital on Tuesday and inquired concerning the well being situation of the BJP chief. “We don’t need flames of discord to interrupt out in our society. We would like concord to prevail. Our optimistic political custom has taught us this. That’s the reason we, the BJP I went to fulfill MLA Anupama Jaiswal and prayed for her early restoration. There’s a place in politics and an analogous place in human relations. Could goodwill and concord prevail,” the Samajwadi Celebration chief wrote on X after his go to.
The previous Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister additionally shared photos from the go to on his social media handles.
We do not need society to be on hearth. We need to see concord in society. That is what our wholesome custom of optimistic politics has taught us. That’s the reason we went to fulfill BJP MLA Mrs. Anupama Jaiswal and need her a speedy restoration. Politics has its place… pic.twitter.com/4lfmjx5HoK
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) April 28, 2026
Jaiswal, an OBC chief, represents Baraihi within the Uttar Pradesh Meeting. She served as Minister of Primary Training, Baby Improvement and Vitamin from 2017 to 2019. She’s going to retain her place in 2022 and has been energetic within the celebration’s organizational actions.
Though the BJP management is but to difficulty a press release relating to Akhilesh’s go to, many inside the ruling celebration are claiming it as a superb gesture.
Senior SP chief Rajendra Chaudhary, who accompanied Akhilesh, stated the SP chief believes in sound politics. “He by no means assaults under the belt and maintains a smooth strategy in direction of opponents at a private stage. You’ll have seen how he greeted Mayawati through the Alliance days, however even earlier than that, he was all the time involved about her well being. He continues the custom of ‘Netaji’ Mulayam Singh Yadav,” Chaudhary added.
One other senior SP chief stated the motion was half of a bigger political technique. “When the Bharatiya Janata Celebration says issues like, Mahila Samman (Respect for Girls), Akhilesh character He was the primary senior chief to go to Jaiswar. Neither Yogi Adityanath nor the Deputy Chief Minister has visited her but. of the B.P.T. Mahila Samman Though the narrative appears to be only a political gesture, Akhilesh ji genuinely cares about ladies, together with his political opponents,” stated an SP chief.
The celebration chief stated Jaiswal is an OBC chief and falls inside the SP’s Pichuda Dalit Arupsankyak (PDA) fold, including that Akhilesh’s go to conveys a broad political message.
Later, Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya arrived on the hospital and met the Bharatiya Janata Celebration MP.
