"Challenge Accepted": Yogi Adityanath On Asaduddin Owaisi's Poll Comment

Yogi Adityanath, responding to Asaduddin Owaisi, asserted that the BJP will win 300-plus seats in Uttar Pradesh polls to be held next year.

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister today shot back at prominent Muslim leader Asaduddin Owaisi a day after the latter asserted that he won't allow Yogi Adityanath's return at the helm of affairs in the state that goes to polls in 2022. Chief Minister Adityanath said the BJP's workers will accept the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief's challenge and ruled out any doubts on his party's return to power. "Owaisi ji is a big national leader. He goes to different parts of the country for campaigning and has his own credibility among people. If he has challenged the BJP, then the BJP worker will accept his challenge," Mr Adityanath said. "The BJP will form the government, and there should be no doubt on this," he said. He added that the BJP's central leadership had fixed a target of 300-plus assembly seats in polls, which, he said, it will win.