Does G in G20 stand for Ghosi? Akhilesh Yadav after bypoll win

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 10 (ANI): Following the recent bypoll win in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghosi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav posted a cryptic message on ‘X’ asking whether the acronym for G in G20 stands for Goshi.

“Someone is asking, does G in G20 stand for Ghosi?” read a rough translation of Akhilesh Yadav’s post in Hindi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the conclusion of the two-day long G20 Summit on Sunday and saw participation by heads of state of the grouping and heads of international organisations. The G20 declaration was adopted on Saturday, the first day of the Summit.

Samajwadi Party’s Sudhakar Singh won the Ghosi bypoll on Friday. This was the first win by the opposition INDIA alliance and a test for unity of the opposition bloc as none of them fielded candidates in Ghosi and chose to support the Samajwadi Party candidate.

Following the bypoll victory posters were put up across Ghosi supporting Shivpal Yadav and mocking Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar.

While the poster supporting Shivpal Yadav said “Tiger is still alive”, the one mocking Om Prakash Rajbhar said, “He is a tainted cartridge, political parties should be careful with him”.

Samajwadi Party leader Udayveer Singh said on Sunday that the bye-election in Ghosi was a test for the INDIA unity, and the “result of the bypoll has given hope that the INDIA alliance will defeat the ruling BJP at the Centre in the upcoming Lok Sabha election.”

“The election of the Ghosi bypoll Assembly seat was something that the entire nation was looking at. Even though the bye-elections were held in seven different places in six states, the most important of them was the bye-election in Ghosi. The bye-election in Ghosi was a test, as several leaders of our parties had left and several had joined the BJP,” Singh said.

“The Lok Sabha election will be held next year, and if INDIA alliance has done well in the Ghosi bypoll, chances are high that it will do even better in Uttar Pradesh and in the country. The way the Samajwadi Party has registered its victory with a huge margin under the INDIA alliance, the result has given hope to all. In the upcoming election, we are going to do even better,” he added.

The bypoll in Ghosi was necessitated after Dara Singh Chauhan, who had won the seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls as Samajwadi Party candidate, came back to the BJP. The Samajwadi Party candidate Sudhakar Singh won by a big margin of 42,759 votes.