The New Indian Express ·
BJP’s Vinod Tawde takes aim at Akhilesh Yadav’s PDA strategy on first UP visit as state in-charge
LUCKNOW: BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde arrived in Lucknow on Saturday for his first visit to Uttar Pradesh after being appointed the party’s state in-charge, and immediately trained his guns on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, taking a swipe at the opposition’s much-publicised “PDA” formula.
Tawde said the BJP would counter the Samajwadi Party’s PDA politics, giving the acronym a new, mocking interpretation — “Paraya Dhan Apna” — and alleging that the SP’s politics involved appropriating what belonged to others.
“PDA and SP mean ‘Paraya Dhan Apna’. NDA will never let this happen,” Tawde said while speaking to reporters after reaching Lucknow. He added that slogans built around the SP’s PDA formulation would be countered by the BJP.
