Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath lashes out at SP for pro-Pak slogans in Agra

LUCKNOW: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday lashed out at the Samajwadi Party accusing it of allowing its workers to raise pro-Pakistan slogans during a protest in Agra. His statement came a day after a viral video showed SP workers, while staging a protest against the ruling BJP allegedly raising slogans like “Pakistan Zindabad”.
“One can assume what kind of security blueprint the SP leadership has for the state,” Yogi said, while addressing BJP workers at the concluding session of the party’s state executive meeting.
“This shows that these people can put national security at stake just for the sake of vote bank politics,” he said.
Raking up the issue of Love Jihad, Yogi said that his government formed a strict law to stop the practice of forced religious conversions.
The CM also pointed out the recent arrest of two persons – Umar Gautam and Mufti Qazi -- by ATS on charges of being involved in religious conversion of unemployed and children with hearing disability, saying that some elements were hatching conspiracy to mobilize people against the state government. He said that such incidents should alert the BJP about opposition malicious attempt to destabilize the state government with the help of few “Jihadi” elements. “Unfortunately, a responsible politician of the state claims that he has no confidence in the state government and police,” Yogi said, in an apparent swipe at SP chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Yogi said that the recent win in the recently concluded panchayat elections indicated the party's recognition at the organisational level. He termed the elected representatives at the rural local bodies as key `dharohar’ of the BJP and urged the party workers to make them a focal point of organisational activities.
Yogi said that the state government tried to save the lives of people without any discrimination during the past two waves of Corona pandemic.