Lucknow Nov 24 PTI A day after meeting Rastriya Lok Dal RLD chief Jayant Chowdhury Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday met AAP Uttar Pradesh incharge Sanjay Singh and held a strategic discussion for the 2022 state assembly polls A strategic discussion rannitik charcha was held on the common agenda to make UP corruption-free and get rid of the government under which the law and order collapsed Singh told reporters after the meeting here About an alliance with the SP Singh said The discussion has just started A good meaningful discussion was held We will let you know later The AAP leader had earlier also met Akhilesh Yadav but had said his party will contest the UP elections alone Singh was present at a book release programme of SP leader Ramgopal Yadav on Tuesday here in which party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav were also present Akhilesh Yadav had met the RLD chief on Tuesday to discuss seat-sharing for the upcoming polls Badhte Kadam Chaudhary had said on his official Twitter handle and also posted a photograph with Akhilesh Yadav Later in a tweet the Samajwadi leader had said Shri Jayant Chaudhary ji ke saath badlav ke ore With Jayant for change Akhilesh Yadav in his statements has repeatedly said the SP is open for alliance with smaller parties PTI ABN AAR

Lucknow Nov 18 PTI Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday met family members of sanitation worker Arun Valmiki who died in police custody in Agra and alleged that the Uttar Pradesh government did nothing to help his family State Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu later handed over cheque of Rs 30 lakh to the Valmikis family in the UPCC headquarters here Today in Lucknow I met the family of Arun Valmiki who was killed in police custody The government did nothing to provide justice to his family Instead of giving victims justice this government UP government attacks them I have promised the family that I will not let their voice be suppressed Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi Valmiki died in police custody in Agra last month While his family alleged he was killed police said that he had died of a heart attack The sanitation worker was held by the police for allegedly stealing Rs 25 lakh from the malkhana of the Jagdishpura police station where he died The police had claimed to have recovered a sum of Rs 15 lakh from his house in the Lohamandi locality Reacting to then SSP Muniraj Gs claim of Valmikis death due to a heart attack his family members asserted that he died in police custody due to torture by the police PTI ABN AAR