Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for breaking the myth Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that PM’s visit to Maghar proves that this BJP Government does not believe in superstitions and works for the uplift of the society.
“Yogi said that by coming to Maghar Prime Minister has broken the myth that this place is Gateway to hell. What Sant Kabir preached 500 years ago, Prime Minister Modi did it on Thursday. The area will no longer remain neglected after PM’s visit,” Yogi said while addressing a public rally paying tribute to Kabir and laying the foundation of the Kabir academy in Maghar here on Thursday.
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said Prime Minister ensured sabka saath sabka vikas ina transparent manner and no one raise a finger at any minister as no one is facing a corruption charge. “The last four year tenure of the central Government is corruption free,” he said. lauding the development schemes being launched by the Prime Minister he said that the country is galloping to the path of development as PM has turned India into a fastest developing country of the world.
However, the CM, blamed the past state Governments of ignoring Maghar. “ UP Government was committed to develop the area of Kabir which had been ignored by the previous governments,” he said. “The parties have used dalits and weavers as the vote bank but no one spared a thought about their development,” he said. The BJP is eyeing the weavers’ community as through his address, the CM wooed the weaver community and Vaishnava Nagas as Kabir is widely believed to be the disciple of Bhakti poet-sant Swami Ramananda of Varanasi. Vaishnava Nagas have a huge presence in Varanasi, Chandoli, Gorakhpur and Sant Kabir Nagar region.
UP culture minister Choudhury laxmi Narain welcomed the guests while sufi singers from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh sang song before the PM.
Meanwhile, Yogi’s stirred a controversy when he refused to wear a cap offered to him at the mazar of Sant Kabir in Maghar on Wednesday when he had gone there to oversee preparations for the prime minister’s visi. He was offered a fur cap by Khadim Hussain, the caretaker, which he politely refused. “As per tradition I offered the cap to Chief Minster Yogi Adityanath when he visited the mausoleum of Kabir saheb but he politely refused,” the Khadim said.
However, he agreed to keep the cap, he said.