‘Law and order cannot run on bulldozers’: Akhilesh Yadav on crimes in Uttar Pradesh | HTLS 2026

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav challenges claims of improved law and order in Uttar Pradesh at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2026, asking for evidence to support them. He alleges that crimes against Dalits and women have increased and questions the state government’s record on tackling crime and mafia activity. Yadav also claims that the High Court and Supreme Court have reprimanded the UP government 81 times, challenging the police’s tough-on-crime stance.