# Samajwadi Party

Samajwadi Party (SP ; translation: Socialist Party, founded 4 October 1992) is a political party in India headquartered in New Delhi. Based in Uttar Pradesh, it describes itself as being democratic socialist.

## Quotes about the Party

* Homosexuality is unethical and immoral, it is against the culture of the country and we will fight it.
** Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav . "Homosexuality Is Unethical And Immoral: Samajwadi Party". News 18. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
* I had joined the party in presence of all major Samajwadi Party leaders, including Mulayam Singh Yadav. So this joke is really sad.
** Shahid Siddiqui after he was expelled from the Samajwadi Party due to the interview with Narendra Modi. The Times Of India. 30 July 2012.
* Shahid Siddiqui, the editor of Urdu daily, Nai Duniya, faced severe attack and abuse for simply doing an interview with Modi in which Modi defends himself against various charges leveled against his government. Siddiqui had asked him all the stereotypical questions hurled by anti-Modi groups and was in no way soft towards Modi. Yet, he was vilified for simply allowing Modi newspaper space to state his version, so much so that he was expelled from Samajwadi Party. It is not surprising that Siddiqui fell in line within no time and began mouthing anti-Modi rhetoric. What kind of journalism do the self-appointed defenders of minority rights want to promote in India that does not give a journalist the right to interview a thrice-elected chief minister simply because the Congress and the Left parties feel threatened by him?
** About Shahid Siddiqui who was expelled from the Samajwadi Party due to the interview with Narendra Modi.
** Madhu Purnima Kishwar: Modi, Muslims and Media. Voices from Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, Manushi Publications, Delhi 2014.
* "BJP wants to win elections by creating riots and communal tension in UP and that is why it is itself carrying out such incidents and creating communal tension in the districts, the result of which is today's incident in Badaun," Samajwadi Party said in a post on X. "When BJP has lost on the real issues of the people, then religious dispute, religious fight is the last weapon left for BJP. At the behest of BJP, many goons and miscreants are roaming freely and are committing such incidents due to which fights are increasing in the society," it added.
** Statement by Samajwadi Party on X about the 2024 Budaun double murder of two Hindu children. Mar 20, 2024
* Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav slammed the Uttar Pradesh government in the state, saying the children’s lives could have been save if the police had done their job. “They (BJP government) can't hide their shortcomings. This encounter is not going to hide their failure, " he said referring to the encounter during which Sajid was shot dead
** Budaun double murder Barber accused of killing 2 boys had gone to their house seeking money
** Statement by Samajwadi Party leader about the 2024 Budaun double murder of two Hindu children.
* SP leader Shivpal Singh Yadav who is also the party's nominee for the upcoming Lok Sabha poll in Budaun, slammed the government, saying law and order has totally failed in the state. "The incident in Budaun is very saddening," he told reporters. On the encounter, he said, "I congratulate the district and police administration for the action but the truth behind the incident must also come out."
** Budaun double murder Barber accused of killing 2 boys had gone to their house seeking money
** Statement by Samajwadi Party leader about the 2024 Budaun double murder of two Hindu children.