Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday celebrated the birthday of Khajanchi, a boy born when his mother was standing in a queue to exchange discontinued currency notes, following demonetisation in 2016, and slammed the ruling BJP over its handling of the economy.

At an event at the party headquarters here, Yadav and party workers celebrated the boy’s ninth birthday by gifting him cash in a symbolic jibe at the demonetisation exercise announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016.

Khajanchi Nath, a native of Rasulabad in Kanpur Dehat district, when asked what gift he would like to have on his birthday, wished for a mobile phone.

The Samajwadi Party chief assured the boy of getting him a phone but cautioned against becoming a “young YouTuber”. “Children should not use mobile p

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