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Ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls next year, Yogi Adityanath accuses previous governments of not promoting Kumbh Mela enough

Press Trust of India • August 20, 2021, 11:59:01 IST
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The UP chief minister claimed that the 2019 Kumbh Mela was safely organised in which over 24 crore people participated and that the state is number one in tourism today

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Ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls next year, Yogi Adityanath accuses previous governments of not promoting Kumbh Mela enough

Lucknow: Indirectly suggesting that Opposition leaders focus just on wooing Muslims, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said they would rather wear topis and say mubarakbaad than organise a Kumbh Mela. Replying to a debate in the Assembly on the state’s supplementary budget, he also referred to the apparent endorsement by a Samajwadi Party MP of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. In the run-up to next year’s Assembly elections, Adityanath’s remarks come days after he used the Urdu term abba jaan (father) in the Assembly while referring to Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. On the last day of the Assembly’s brief Monsoon Session, Adityanath recalled the Allahabad Kumbh organised by his BJP government in 2019. He seemed to suggest that the previous governments hadn’t bothered to put in much effort into the organisation of the Kumbh Mela, which he said has a “written history” of 10,000 years. “Many people got the opportunity to organise the Kumbh with some getting the opportunities for decades, as they were in power then,” he said. But they lacked the intention, he charged. “They thought that if they organise the Kumbh, they will then be unable to do mubarakbaad while wearing a topi,” Adityanath said. Mubarakbaad is a greeting in Urdu. It is not clear if by the topi, Adityanath meant a Muslim skullcap or the red caps often worn by Samajwadi Party members. “Today, the caps are off,” he said, claiming that the success of the Kumbh had overshadowed everything else. Adityanath said it was a safely organised event in which over 24 crore people participated. “This happened in Uttar Pradesh, and today Uttar Pradesh is number one in tourism,” he added. Without naming Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rehman Barq, he said, “Some people are supporting the Taliban, which is committing atrocities on women and children.” He charged that such people wanted “Talibanisation” and were now exposed. Questioned by reporters, Barq recently equated the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan with the Indian freedom struggle. He has been booked for sedition. Adityanath said river Ganga flows through Uttar Pradesh and it’s the land of Ram, Krishna and Vishwanath, and it has been the hub of the freedom struggle. “In spiritual tourism, heritage tourism and eco-tourism, Uttar Pradesh’s role has been that of a leading state, but no attention was paid to this,” he claimed. He said leaders built memorials in their own honour. “Nobody even peeped towards Ayodhya, and today everybody is claiming that Lord Ram belongs to them as well,” he said. “Earlier, Ram, Krishna and Shankar were considered communal. Now, when they have realised that the majority in society will not forget them, they are prostrating in reverence and saying that they too are devotees of Lord Ram, Lord Krishna and Lord Shankar,” the CM said. He called this a “victory of ideology”.

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