Yogi Adityanath claimed that PM Modi “ended the politics of appeasement”. (file)
Lucknow:
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath shrewdly lashed out at “saying people” after a day of ridicule for next year’s state elections.abba jani‘” in a double-edged barb that was seen grazing the minority Muslim community as well as his predecessor Akhilesh Yadav.
Adityanath said at an event in the state’s Kushinagar, “There is no place for the politics of appeasement under the leadership of PM Modi… Before 2017 everyone used to get ration? Only those who said ‘Abba Jaan’ were digesting the ration. ” .
‘abba jani’ is a term mostly used by Muslims to address fathers, a community that has been targeted by Hindu priests several times in the past with divisive statements. Some even saw Swipe as a rival to Akhilesh Yadav, son of former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav.
#Watch | No place for politics of appeasement under PM Modi… Before 2017 did everyone get ration?…Earlier, only those who called ‘Abba Jaan’ used to digest ration: Yogi Adityanath in Kushinagar, UP CM pic.twitter.com/CPr6IMbwry
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) September 12, 2021
Many on social media, including former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, condemned the communal tone of the statement.
I have always maintained that BJP has no intention of fighting any election with agenda except communalism and hatred with all venom against Muslims. Here a CM is demanding re-election, claiming that Muslims have eaten all the ration for Hindus. https://t.co/zaYtK43vpd
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) September 12, 2021
Last month, Yogi Adityanath, while speaking in the UP assembly, said about the opposition promoting vaccine hesitation, some people only taunted him after.abba jani‘ He did in a comment that came just days after Mulayam Singh Yadav’s jab.
“PM Modi really changed the political agenda of the country. Politics started in 1947 and was limited to caste, religion, region and language, family and lineage, PM Modi said it to villages, poor, farmers, youth, women and children. , ”Adityanath also said.
The statement comes just weeks after the BJP launched a lucrative nationwide campaign to highlight how it chose an unprecedented number of members from disadvantaged castes for PM Modi’s cabinet.
This came on the same day that the BJP announced Bhupendra Patel for Gujarat chief minister, widely seen as a move to appease some of the angry Patel community ahead of the state elections next year.
Yogi Adityanath, who is being challenged in elections due early next year along with Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Congress, among other outfits, was mocked till Sunday morning. A newspaper ad gone wrong.
A full-page ad prominently ended up using a picture of West Bengal, ruled by BJP’s nemesis Mamata Banerjee, to brag about the development of Uttar Pradesh under his leadership. The mistake was blamed on the newspaper which also issued an apology on Twitter.
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