SP legislators protest as UP Budget session begins By IANS | Published on Thu, Feb 18 2021 10:57 IST | 0 Views SP legislators protest as UP Budget session begins. Image Source: IANS News Lucknow, Feb 18 : Samajwadi Party legislators staged a protest outside the Vidhan Bhawan on Thursday, before the Budget Session of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly began. The legislators who arrived on bicycles to protest against rising prices, sat below the statue of Chaudhary Charan Singh and expressed their solidarity with the agitating farmers. Some of them carried sugarcane sticks to protest against the state government's refusal to increase the minimum support price of sugarcane this year.