New Delhi. UP CM Yogi Adityanath has targeted Akhilesh Yadav by mentioning PDA after Samajwadi Party sent him to the Upper House by giving Rajya Sabha ticket to industrialist Dhanraj Parimal Nathwani. Yogi said, I want to ask the socialists that those who used to shout PDA-PDA, where has PDA gone in the Rajya Sabha election ticket? We have been saying from the first day that SP's PDA means 'Family Development Authority' and at most it means 'Paraya Dhan Apna', and you must have seen both the things here. He sold the Rajya Sabha ticket to Dhanna Seth of Mumbai. It is true that 'Family Development Authority' and 'Paraya Dhan Apna', both have been proved and this is the truth of SP.
I want to ask the socialists, where has PDA gone in the Rajya Sabha election ticket? He sold the ticket to Dhanna Seth of Mumbai. Family Development Authority (PDA) is done…this is the truth of SP…
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) October 14, 2026
UP CM said that Akhilesh Yadav made two candidates in the Rajya Sabha elections, one for his uncle Jaan Ramgopal Yadav. Hey, they could have made a Yadav from Kashi, they could have made someone from Ghazipur or Ballia, but they did not make it. He could have sent a Dalit to the other seat, he could have given tickets only to Muslims who vote in his own family, even that was not done. Yogi said that what misery happened to the youth during the time of Samajwadi Party, when there was no progress in the government itself, then misery was bound to happen. The biggest example of this is that in the SP government, the Saifai Syndicate had appointed people from its own family in the recruitment commission and board.

Yogi further said, recruitment was done through people from his own family, uncle-nephew duo used to go out for extortion and no youth got a job outside the Saifai Syndicate. The Chief Minister said, our government respects education and I know the importance of education. We have given jobs to 65 lakh youth in the private sector. More than 3 crore people have been linked with employment and self-employment. Before 2017, there were only 120 startups in UP. Today more than 24,000 startups are working in UP.