Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today played down the criticism of his government by his father and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav saying "which father doesn't scold his son."

"The media tends to show everything that they can lay their hands on and give us free publicity...he is my father and which father does not scold his son", Yadav said while speaking at the 'Infrastructure Summit 2015' here.