# Yogi warns Samajwadi Party will be wiped out in UP polls 2026-08-24T03:03:45+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said voters will 'wipe out' the Samajwadi Party permanently in the next state assembly elections. Speaking on Sunday, he accused the party and its chief Akhilesh Yadav of never including the poor in their agenda and of putting the state behind family interests. The BJP leader did not specify a timeline for the next polls, which are due in 2027. Adityanath has previously made similar claims about the opposition party's electoral prospects in the state. ## Indian Opinion Analysis A decade ago, the Samajwadi Party won 224 seats in the 2012 UP assembly election. Its tally has fallen sharply since, to 47 in 2017 and 111 in 2022, while the BJP's rose from 312 to 255 despite losing ground. Yogi Adityanath's target of 'wiping out' the SP reflects the BJP's push to consolidate its Hindu vote bank, which the SP is trying to crack with its PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) strategy ahead of the next election scheduled for early 2027. ## Coverage - indiatvnews.com Leads with CM's attack on SP, no opposition response cited This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Akhilesh Yadav, BJP, Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/yogi-warns-samajwadi-party-will-be-wiped-out-in-up-polls/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/yogi-warns-samajwadi-party-will-be-wiped-out-in-up-polls/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/