Akhilesh Yadav says Jinnah was 'a hero of India`s freedom movement', faces BJP backlash

Remembering Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his birth anniversary, Akhilesh Yadav said, "Sardar Patel used to know the land, Sardar Patel took decisions holding the land, he used to understand the land so he made his decisions and that is why he is known as the Iron man Of India."

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has stirred a major political controversy by glorifying Muhammad Ali Jinnah at a party rally in Hardoi. 

"Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jinnah, they all came out of the same institution. They all studied at the same institute, they became barristers and gave freedom," the SP leader had said at the rally on Sunday.