Lucknow: Head of the Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav was under the BJP brass fire on Monday, the day after he did the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League and the founder of Mohammad Ali Jinnah claiming that he studied with Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the institution to become lawyers and Fight for Indian freedom.
CM Yogi Adityanh said the Akhilesh statement as a “embarrassing” display “Talibani” and the “divisive” mindset.
Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya attacked SP’s head calling him “Akhilesh Ali Jinnah” and his party as “Namazwadi Party”.
The Head of BJP Chief Swatantra Dev Singh said Yadav had to “burn crackers” after watching the Indian-Pakistan India-Pakistan Cricket match recently.
Singh’s reference for the cricket match came a few days after the hetition charges were slapped on three Kashmir students in Agra for celebrating Pakistani’s victory against India.
On Sunday, Yogi said that the government would “not tolerate” people who supported the “enemy country” and praised it.
The BJP journey to release caustic thorns in Akhilesh for his statement vis-A-Vis Jinnah was seen as a precursor for a potential battle between two main political rivals in the election of the run-up assembly in the next few months.
The BJP source said that the party was not mood to depend and required to bring up SP to pursue a taste of a minority appeasement for the political elections of the Bank.
Akhilesh also left BJP Brass under the collar because it said that Patel had banned “an ideology”.
“The same person who talks about national unity tries to divide people with caste and religious lines,” Akhilesh said on Sunday.
Experts said Akhilesh refers to communiques issued by Patel to ban RSS, the current BJP ideological mentor, in 1948 after Mahatma Gandhi’s murder.
This is not the first time Jinnah has reached the center stage of the political discourse above.
The days before the general election for Cairana and Noorpur in May 2018, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad members, RSS students and Hindu Yuva Vahini have clashed with police who demanded the transfer of Jinnah’s portrait from the Muslim University campus of Aligarh.
This was after BJP MP from Aligarh Satish Gautam wrote to AMU Deputy Chancellor Tariq Mansoor and looked for justification for Jinnah’s portrait, which had been hanging at the University since 1938.
In 2010, BJP Stalwarts LK Advani and Jaswant Singh had triggered controversy by accumulating.
Praise in Jinnah.
Watch Yogi Adityanath Slams Akhilesh Yadav for Jinnah’s comments, said the ‘Talibani mentality’