Imran Masood questions Akhilesh Yadav’s leadership; Iqra Hasan’s retort sparks a political tussle in UP.

Imran Masood questions Akhilesh Yadav’s leadership; Iqra Hasan’s retort sparks a political tussle in UP.

Every political party in UP is gearing up for the 2027 assembly elections; the BJP has already worked out its caste arithmetic, yet the alliance between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party remains stuck in a deadlock. Notably, the Congress has now begun questioning Akhilesh Yadav’s leadership. The internal rift between the two parties regarding seat-sharing for the assembly elections has spilled out into the public domain, pitting two prominent Muslim figures against each other: Congress’s Imran Masood and the Samajwadi Party’s Iqra Hasan. Essentially, when Congress MP Imran Masood questioned Akhilesh Yadav’s leadership, the party fielded Iqra Hasan to counter him and hold him accountable.