Yogi Adityanath, who has been focusing his attention on his principal opponent Akhilesh Yadav ahead Uttar Pradesh election, posted an early tweet declaring his Samajwadi Party “worshippers of Jinnah” and those who support Pakistan.
“They revere Jinnah. We are believers in Sardar Patel. Pakistan is essential to them. We sacrifice our lives for Maa Bharati (Mother India),” the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister tweeted concerning Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Yogi Adityanath who is running for another term for the second time in the forthcoming election, has made polarizing remarks similar to this during the build-up to an election he and the BJP will fight to take home.
He started a couple of weeks ago with an “80 opposed to 20” comment, which was understood to represent the proportion of Hindu people to Muslims.
He claimed that 80 percent of the people who voted were in the BJP.
This week Yogi Adityanath addressed a gathering that “Earlier Haj Houses used to be built in Ghaziabad and our government has built an entirely new one, the Kailash Manasarovar Bhawan.”
Ghaziabad, located in the western part of Uttar Pradesh, is among the districts that will vote for the first time in the state of 10 February.
UP will be voting across seven different phases.
In the western part of UP, In west Uttar Pradesh, the BJP faces a massive backlash due to the controversial farm law that Prime Premier Narendra Modi later withdrew after an 11-month protest and months before elections in some states like UP as well as Punjab.
It is believed that the BJP, along with Yogi Adityanath’s polarizing remarks appear to be an attempt to divert focus off of the protests by farmers.
In the past, the saffron-clad Chief Minister served as the head priest of the Gorakhnath Mutt in eastern UP and referred to Akhilesh Yadav’s father Mulayam Singh Yadav as “abbajaan” (Urdu for father).
“When pension was cut, His ‘abbajaan’ was CM (Chief Minister). He was CM for another four years.
The CM (Akhilesh) served as CM for four consecutive years after that.
He didn’t think about the government employees at that time,” Yogi Adityanath said.
Yogi Adityanath’s twitter timeline has been filled with a flood of communally controversial tweets in the last couple of days.
There are references to “danga” or violence, “Abbajaan mafia,” as well as “palayan” as well as ” the migration.”
The Keshav Prasad Maurya, a member of the BJP, how the Samajwadi Party was not releasing its list of candidates anymore, and what it was afraid of.
Sources from the Samajwadi Party, which has only released a list with 29 names, have granted tickets to many others.
They are concerned they could be a target for the BJP to use the lists published on social media to create a divide in the elections.
The Samajwadi Party has 13 Muslim candidates for the first phase of UP elections.
Results of the Uttar Pradesh election will be announced on March 10.
