In a report analysis, Samajwadi Party supremo, Akhilesh Yadav found as ‘worst performing Members of Parliament of Uttar Pradesh.

He lost his CM seat in 2014 General elections and 2017 assembly election, later tied up with arch-rival Mayawati for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections but he failed to win and only won 5 seats out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP.

In a report by Organizer, written by Shantanu Gupta, a detailed data analysis of the performance of all the 80 Lok Sabha Members of Parliament (MPs) from Uttar Pradesh shows that Akhilesh Yadav is the worst performing MPs from UP.

His analysis is based the inputs obtained from the PRS Legislative database of the Lok Sabha for the MPs from UP in the period of 1 June 2019 to 13 Feb 2021.

SP’s two MPs – Azam Khan from Samajwadi Party and Atul Kumar Singh from Bahujan Samaj Party were not included in the analysis as both of them are/were in jail for a significant amount of time during the period.

The average attendance of MPs from UP is 88%, which is 6% more than the national average of 82% in the same period.

Akhilesh Yadav with 36% attendance has the lowest attendance among the MPs from UP. With 44% attendance in this period, Sonia Gandhi has the second-worst attendance record among MPs from UP.

In sharp contrast, 4 BJPs MP from UP – Bholanath, Jagdambika Pal, Pradeep Kumar and Rajvir Diler have 100% attendance in the same period. It’s also noteworthy that two six-term MPs – Pankaj Chowdhary and Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, both from BJP have 95% and 98% attendance respectively.

Akhilesh Yadav and Sonia Gandhi asked zero (0) questions to the government in this period.

19 MPs from BJP and 1 MP from BSP asked more questions than the national average of 66 questions. None from SP and INC MPs asked more questions than the national average.

A total of 23 MPs from BJP and 4 from BSP asked more questions than the state average of 44 questions.

Following the dismal performance of their president Akhilesh Yadav in the parliament, none of the Samajwadi party MPs asked more than even the state average. Moreover, Akhilesh Yadav participated only in 4 debates, a notch better than Sonia Gandhi’s participation in 1 debate.

The report suggested, Akhilesh Yadav and Sonia Gandhi presented no private member bills in the parliament. Its noteworthy that Pushpendra Singh Chandel, Ajay Misra Teni and Ravindra Shyamnarayan of BJP presented four private member bills each in the parliament in this period, which is significantly above the national average.

Overall, Akhilesh Yadav’s performance is disappointing as a MP on all of the four counts-attendance, questions asked, debates and private member bill. His stint as leader of opposition in the UP assembly was also worse.

In contrast, during the covid second wave, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, just after becoming Covid negative, started monitoring the ground zero. Yogi visited many districts within 2 weeks. During his visits, Yogi also went to Saifai (Etawah), Akhilesh Yadav’s home town and Azamgarh which is Akhilesh’s LS constituency.

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