Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Sunday rued the omission of Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav's name from the list of its "star campaigners", terming it as an "irony". The SP patriarch had been left out of his party's list of 40 "star campaigners" Saturday, but was included in it Sunday after the omission caused a flutter in political circles.

"See the irony! His own son has struck his name off the campaigners' list of the party to establish which he campaigned door to door along with his brother, wearing worn out slippers," lamented Adityanath in his Tweet, without naming the 79-year-old socialist stalwart Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav. "While mulling over the political capital earned by him, he (Mulayam) must be thinking: Poot kaput to kya dhan sanchay, poot saput to kya dhan sanchay? (What's the need to accumulate wealth if the son is undeserving one; and why to accumulate it when he is deserving one?" he added tersely.