Akhilesh Yadav is Aurangzeb and UP Minister of State for Excise Nitin Agarwal is daaru mantri was the agenda of the twitter brawl between the Samajwadi Party and the minister, who was riding the ‘cycle’.
The war of words on the micro blogging site began with Nitin Agarwal calling SP a party of goons that gives patronage to criminals.
This resulted in a no holds barred battle on Thursday with daru, tharra, rum and whiskey lacing the verbal duel between the SP and Minister of State for Excise Nitin Agarwal. Both sides accused each other of patronising goons.
Nitin, a former SP leader, called Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav ‘Aurangzeb’ for having “humiliated” his father Mulayam Singh Yadav in the past, while the SP hit back calling the minister’s father, former SP leader Naresh Agarwal, “Tharra Naresh” and a “mausam vaigyanik” (a weather vane).
“Daaru mein jise bhagwan dikhe, woh hai tharra Naresh. Daaru mantri hai jiska ladka, woh hai rum, whiskey, gin premi tharra Naresh (the one who saw God in liquor, that is country-liquor loving Naresh. Whose son is the minister of alcohol that is rum, whiskey, gin loving Naresh),” the SP tweeted in an attack on Naresh Agarwal who had quit the party to join the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2018.
The SP’s tweet was in response to Nitin attacking Akhilesh Yadav on Twitter: “Pitaji ko jisne beizzat kiya, chacha ko diya sandesh, samajwadi ke naam par, Aurangzeb hai Akhilesh.” Nitin had rebelled against the SP in 2021 and formally joined the BJP in 2022 and has been elected as BJP MLA.
The latest round of the verbal duel between the two sides began hours after the SP targeted Nitin for his comment that the SP has been giving “patronage to goons and mafias”.
Nitin earlier had backed Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati who, in a tweet, had said the SP is a party that gives patronage to criminal elements.
Targeting Nitin Agarwal for his comments on the SP, associating it with “goons”, the party’s official handle tweeted old news clipping of a statement made by Nitin on how he had once told the UP police to not enter homes where raw liquor is prepared, otherwise, he “will have to do something about it”.
“Listen, Nitin Agarwal, are you making statements under influence of the same kacchi–pakki (raw–English alcohol) in accordance with the department you represent? Oh, son of Naresh, the mausam vaigyanik who stays under the influence all day, this is your statement. And going by this, you are the one who gives patronage to goons,” the SP tweeted.
In his response to the SP, Nitin labeled Akhilesh as “Aurangzeb”.
“The party (SP) chief is known as Aurangzeb, who has been disrespecting his honourable father often under the influence of some foreign intoxicant. We can only expect such kind of language from him and his party. He could not be faithful to his father; how can he be expected to be faithful to the public?” Nitin hit back.
Doubling down on the Aurangzeb reference, he also wrote that Akhilesh -- who has humiliated his father and “sent a message” to his estranged uncle and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) chief Shivpal Singh Yadav — is an “Aurangzeb” pretending to be a socialist.
As the online war continued, the SP media cell also tweeted an old video of Naresh Agarwal in which he purportedly made controversial comments about Hindu Gods Vishnu, Rama, Sita and Hanuman in the Rajya Sabha in 2017.