New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was photographed scaling what has been reported as an eight-feet tall gate after having been stopped by police from entering the Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre in Lucknow to pay respects to a statue of the leader on his birth anniversary on October 11.Yadav posted Times of India‘s photo of him and the caption on X with the words, “where there’s a wall, there’s a will.”WHERE THERE’S A WALL, THERE’S A WILL pic.twitter.com/8bWPtzh4OC— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) October 12, 2023Yadav’s supporters also scaled the locked gate with him.“What is the use of democracy when obstacles are created for the garlanding of the Loknayak in a democracy?” Yadav posted. He also posted a photo showing that he did manage to garland the statue in Centre.Jayaprakash Narayan is popularly referred to as Loknayak. A fierce socialist leader, JP is particularly known for his role during the Emergency.1975 :: Shri Jayprakash Narayan Beaten by Police During #Emergency pic.twitter.com/ZB3UrESlcA— indianhistorypics (@IndiaHistorypic) June 22, 2020Reports said that when Samajwadi Party supporters reached the Centre, they found that it was locked and the statue was wrapped with a sheet. Requests to unlock the gate were ignored by authorities, SP workers said, necessitating Yadav’s scaling of the gate.Hindustan Times has quoted anonymous Lucknow Development Authority officials who have said the Centre is closed because of work going on inside and that the authorities are considering lodging an FIR “against forcible entry into the government building.”