In a veiled attack on the Gandhi family for practicing ‘divisive politics’, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that those who proclaimed themselves ‘accidental Hindus’, cannot call themselves Hindus and sought to know why the family goes out and claims allegiance to Hinduism during elections.
“Unhe chunaav me hi ‘mandir’ aur Amethi ki yaad aati hai,” he said.
Addressing a public rally in Amethi, a bastion of the Gandhi family in Uttar Pradesh till 2019, the chief minister remarked, “Those who have always adopted divisive politics, who have disintegration and division in their genes, whose ancestors used to say that we are accidental Hindus, cannot now call themselves Hindus.”
Yogi laid the foundation stone for a government medical college worth Rs 293 crore and also inaugurated a 500-bed district-level referral hospital built at a cost of Rs 86.42 crore in Amethi.
Union Minister Smriti Irani was also present on the occasion.
Taking a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Yogi said, “He does not even know how to sit in a temple and knows nothing about Hinduism or Hindutva. During the elections in Gujarat, the former MP of Amethi went to a temple and sat there in the position to offer namaz. The priest had to interrupt and guide him how to sit in a temple.”
Accusing the previous Samajwadi Party government of bringing anti-communal law and playing with the faith of Hindus, the chief minister said, “By bringing anti-communal law in the country, they wanted to imprison the Hindus of this country and wanted to play with their faith. But as the elections inch closer, they have the audacity to go out and pose as staunch Hindus.”
Yogi further said, “We are not hiding anything and we don’t have any hesitation. When I was not the chief minister, then too I used to say this which I am reiterating, that everyone should proudly say that they are Hindus. In their lust for power and the politics of appeasement they were always eager to destroy Ram Setu. Sometimes, they used to instigate riots in the name of communalism.”
Targeting the Congress brass, the chief minister said, “They remember Amethi in the elections only. When the people of this district gave them a chance to serve, they did nothing. The Congress big gun’s apathy led to his defeat in the Lok Sabha election in Amethi. But now as the elections are approaching, they have taken out time to visit the district again. They are undertaking political tourism.”
Launching a scathing attack on the Congress ‘bhai-behen’ duo, Yogi said, “During the COVID-19 pandemic, when we were working to save the lives of the common man, the brother-sister duo provided fake registration numbers of buses to ferry stranded workers into UP from Rajasthan, These numbers turned out to be of scooters. Not a single leader or president of Samajwadi Party, Congress or Bahujan Samaj Party came forward to help the public during the coronavirus crisis. As soon as elections come, these people come here. They will disappear for four and a half years after the elections and will not be seen again.”
Slamming the Samajwadi Party chief for crying over the recent IT/GST raids, the chief minister said, “Today we are getting houses built for the poor. In the previous government, the funds were used to go to the pockets of ‘babua’. That is the reason they are requesting the Election Commission to postpone the raids and conduct them after the elections.”