Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a scathing attack on the Samajwadi Party (SP) during a public rally in Aligarh on Saturday and drew a controversial similarity between Akhilesh Yadav’s party and the Muslim League. Yogi Adityanath accused the Samajwadi Party of pursuing a divisive agenda similar to that of the Muslim League, which he claimed had laid the foundation for the partition of India in 1906.
He said: “The Muslim League, which laid the foundation for the partition of India in 1906, established itself in Aligarh. Aligarh did not allow them to do so, but their intention to divide the society on communal lines was successful.”
He further alleged that the Samajwadi Party continues the divisive policies of the Muslim League. He warned: “Remember that the foundation of the Muslim League was not laid in Islamabad, Karachi or Dhaka. It was laid right here in Aligarh. The dangerous intentions are not over yet. The same work that the Muslim League was doing at that time” . The Samajwadi Party is doing the same and their intentions should not be allowed to succeed.”
A day earlier, the Chief Minister had criticized the Samajwadi Party’s alleged disregard for India’s heritage and compared it to the pride associated with the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Addressing rallies in Katehari from Ambedkar Nagar and Majhwan assembly constituencies of Mirzapur ahead of the November 20 by-elections, Adityanath said, “Before 2014, opposition alliance leaders played with security national and insulted our heritage. Today Ramlala has been consecrated in In the great Ram temple in Ayodhya, this scene fills all the citizens of the country with pride, which has done the Samajwadi Party people. Insulted again and again.”
The Chief Minister said the legacy of the Samajwadi Party is linked to gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and controversial people like Mukhtar Ansari and Khan Mubarak. He said: “The true legacy of the Samajwadi Party is linked to people like Khan Mubarak, Atiq Ahmed and Mukhtar Ansari.”
He said the party has deviated from the ideals of socialist leader Dr Ram Manohar Lohia. The BJP leader has launched this attack on the Akhilesh Yadav-led party at a time when by-elections are being held in nine assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh on November 20.
