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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reply to the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address in Lok Sabha triggered an all-out Twitter war between Arvind Kejriwal and Yogi Adityanath on Monday night. The two chief ministers bickered on Twitter over the statement made by Narendra Modi that the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had “instigated” migrants to travel amid the first lockdown and hence spread COVID-19 across the country. Twitter wars On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking in Lok Sabha had said, “The Congress crossed all limits during the first wave of COVID. During the first wave, when the country was in lockdown and when the WHO was advising everyone to stay wherever they are, the Congress went to the Mumbai railway station to scare innocent people. They pushed labourers to go back to their states and spread coronavirus. “You pushed labourers into crisis. In Delhi, the government went around slums in jeeps and announced on mics that whoever wants to go home, buses have been arranged. Infections then shot up in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, where the coronavirus had not even spread that much. What kind of politics is this? How long will this politics will continue?” Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, reacting to the prime minister’s remark, said that it was a ‘blatant lie’. “This statement of prime minister is a blatant lie. The country hopes that the prime minister will be sensitive to those who have suffered the pain of the Corona period, those who have lost their loved ones. It does not suit the prime minister to do politics on the sufferings of the people," he said in a tweet in Hindi.
प्रधानमंत्री जी का ये बयान सरासर झूठ है। देश उम्मीद करता है कि जिन लोगों ने कोरोना काल की पीड़ा को सहा, जिन लोगों ने अपनों को खोया, प्रधानमंत्री जी उनके प्रति संवेदनशील होंगे। लोगों की पीड़ा पर राजनीति करना प्रधानमंत्री जी को शोभा नहीं देता। pic.twitter.com/Dd4NsRNGCY
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 7, 2022
His party also tweeted to say the prime minister’s statement was “false”.
PM Modi gave an absolutely FALSE statement on #MigrantCrisis during the ill-planned lockdown.
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) February 7, 2022
Country expected him to be sensitive to people's suffering but he's busy doing dirty politics.
SHAMELESS POLITICS BY THE PRIME MINISTER! pic.twitter.com/Dlx43RmTrX
A few hours later, Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister Yogi Adityanath hit back at Kejriwal in a series of tweets, saying his criticism of the prime minister was condemnable and he should apologise to the country.
अरविंद केजरीवाल का आदरणीय प्रधानमंत्री जी के बारे में आज का बयान घोर निंदनीय है।
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) February 7, 2022
अरविंद केजरीवाल को पूरे राष्ट्र से माफी मांगनी चाहिए।
गोस्वामी तुलसीदास जी ने उनके जैसे लोगों के बारे में ही कहा है कि...
झूठइ लेना, झूठइ देना।
झूठइ भोजन, झूठ चबेना।।
In his tweets, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister accused his Delhi counterpart of “forcing the workers of UP to leave Delhi when the entire humanity was groaning due to the pain of Corona”. Yogi Adityanath added, “Your government did an undemocratic and inhuman act like leaving even small children and women helpless on the UP border in the middle of the night.”
सुनो केजरीवाल,
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) February 7, 2022
जब पूरी मानवता कोरोना की पीड़ा से कराह रही थी, उस समय आपने यूपी के कामगारों को दिल्ली छोड़ने पर विवश किया।
छोटे बच्चों व महिलाओं तक को आधी रात में यूपी की सीमा पर असहाय छोड़ने जैसा अलोकतांत्रिक व अमानवीय कार्य आपकी सरकार ने किया।
आपको मानवताद्रोही कहें या...
He then went on to accuse the Delhi chief minister of “cutting electricity and water” of migrant labourers and forcing them to leave the city. Refusing to back down, Kejriwal hit back at Yogi Adityanath. “Listen Yogi, You just let it be. Just like the dead bodies of the people of UP were flowing in the river and you were giving advertisements of your false applause in Times magazine by spending crores of rupees. I have never seen such a harsh and cruel ruler like you.”
सुनो योगी,
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 7, 2022
आप तो रहने ही दो। जिस तरह UP के लोगों की लाशें नदी में बह रहीं थीं और आप करोड़ों रुपए खर्च करके Times मैगज़ीन में अपनी झूठी वाह वाही के विज्ञापन दे रहे थे। आप जैसा निर्दयी और क्रूर शासक मैंने नहीं देखा। https://t.co/qxcs2w60lG
Twitter war before polls It’s interesting to note that this Twitter back-and-forth took place just days before the state of Uttar Pradesh goes to polls on 10 February. Five states — Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur — will go to polls in different phases from 10 February to 3 March. The results for all the states will be announced by the Election Commission on 10 March. With inputs from agencies Read all the Latest News , Trending News , Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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