Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav drove a medical officer out of a hospital ward, saying ‘tum bahar bhaag jao’. He also said that the officer could not take the side of the government and was only a small officer. Akhilesh Yadav had reached the hospital to meet those injured in the Kannauj bus accident. A bus carrying over 40 passengers had collided with a truck in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj and caught fire on January 10.