Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, on Friday, hit back at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his “cap is red but deeds are black” jibe, saying “those who lack love in their lives have ill-will towards red colour”.
The SP chief’s remark came a day after Yogi Adityanath said, “Everyone is familiar with the misdeeds of the SP. If you turn the pages, the SP’s history is full of black deeds. The SP’s cap is ‘laal’ (red) but its ‘karnamein kale hain (deeds are black). They are repeating their history.”
Akhilesh Yadav said no colour was good or bad, it was about perspective. He delved into the issue of colours and their significance at length in a post on X, and said those who lack love, union and harmony in their lives often have ill-will towards the red colour.
Akhilesh Yadav’s party workers and leaders are seen in red caps.
“Colours have a deep relation with mind and psychology. If a colour is liked by someone in particular, then there are special psychological reasons for it and if someone gets angry on seeing a colour, then there are some negative psychological reasons for that too,” he said.
“The truth is that every colour is obtained from nature and positive people do not consider any colour to be negative. Instead of positive diversity towards colours, we should have multi-coloured goodwill towards those who have a negative view of division and disintegration because this is not their fault but the result of their monochrome narrow dominant thinking,” Akhilesh Yadav asserted.
“To change the mind and heart of such people, we just need to explain that ‘only after the dark night of black there is significance of the reddish morning’; this mutual colour-relationship brings hope and enthusiasm in life,” he said and added “no colour is good or bad, it is about perspective”.
Yadav said the colour red was a symbol of union and “those who lack love, union and harmony in their lives often have ill-will towards this colour.”
“Red is the colour of power and has a positive relation with many revered powers but those who think that their own power is the greatest, they consider red colour a challenge, and, even a powerful bull gets angry on seeing red colour,” the SP chief said.
Talking about black, the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh said, “Black colour is particularly positive in Indian contexts, such as the ‘black tika’ applied to children of the family to protect them from the evil eye and the use of black beads in the ‘mangalsutra’, a symbol of marital bliss.”
“Those who lack the element of motherly love or good fortune in their lives psychologically develop an aversion towards the black colour,” he said.
Yadav said black was also considered the colour of negativity and despair. So those whose political thinking thrives on black thoughts like ‘fear’ and ‘distrust’ wear it on their heads.
