UP CM Yogi Adityanath slams Kharge, tells him to direct anger towards ‘nizams of Hyderabad’

After Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge took a dig at UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over donning “bhagwa clothes” and raising slogans such as “batenge to katenge”, the latter attacked Kharge while addressing a rally in Akola and Amravati in Western Vidarbha region and said that Kharge should instead be angry with “razakars of nizam”. Taking a swipe at Kharge, Yogi said that the Congress president is only worried about the vote bank, which is why he was not naming the “razakars of nizam” who had burned his mother, sister and other family members.

“Nowadays Kharge is getting angry with me unnecessarily… but don’t do this.. I respect your age… Kharge ji mujh par gussa mat kijiye. Gussa un Hyderabad ke nizamo par kijiye… Un nizamo ke razakaron par kijiye jinhone aapka ghar jalaa dala… Aapki pujya mataji, behen aur parivaar ke sadasyon ko jalaya tha.. (Don’t get angry with me. Get angry with those nizams of Hyderabad, or with those razakars of nizams who burned down your village and burnt your respected mother, sister and other members of the family),” Yogi said while speaking in an election rally in Akola.

Earlier in the day, Yogi held an election rally at Amravati ‘s Achalpur constituency where he slammed Kharge and alleged that “Kharge ji doesn’t want to tell the truth because he feels that if he blames the nizams, then the Muslim vote will slip away…. For your vote bank, you are hiding this fact from the people and deceiving the people.”

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He even said that Kharge forgot his family’s sacrifice for the sake of vote bank.

Raising the slogans “Bantenge to Katenge” and “ek hain to safe hain”, Yogi said that if Hindus are divided, then there will be attacks on Ganpati processions, land of Hindus will be grabbed and the safety of Hindu daughters will be in danger.

He cited the example of UP, where he is the Chief Minister and said, “Today there is no love jihad or land jihad in UP… There were mafias in UP and the previous government used to give them security. Now all of them are on the path to hell,” Yogi said.