LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said, the ensuing assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh was grabbing global eyeballs. “While on one hand, we have the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who established India as a capable and powerful nation, on the other hand there are Jinnahwadis, who support terrorism and hurt India’s faith,” he said.
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Yogi made this remark and tweeted this during the booth-level convention in Gorakhpur. Yogi’s swipe supplemented BJP chief JP Nadda acerbic attack on the Opposition, ostensibly SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, who recently courted controversy for comparing Gandhi, Nehru and Patel with Muslim League leader and Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. His fresh praise for Modi came a day after two photographs of PM and Yogi took social media by storm and was interpreted as Modi’s endorsement of Yogi as party’s prominent face in the run-up to UP assembly elections.