"On Way Out, So Yogi Language Changing": Akhilesh Yadav On Abba Jaan Row
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Akhilesh Yadav said the people of Uttar Pradesh wants things to go back to how they were during the SP's regime with him as Chief Minister.
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav took potshots at incumbent Yogi Adityanath and his government today over a recent controversial comment by the latter in the build up to the state legislative polls. The senior BJP leader had a few days ago passed an apparent jibe at the state's Muslims deploying, in a rather offensive manner, the term "abba jaan", used by many of them to address their fathers. #HamareAbbaJaanHe taught us the value of truthfulness, honesty and above all humanity pic.twitter.com/5qfpzefwnc
Mr Yadav, chief of the Samajwadi Party which ruled Uttar Pradesh before Mr Adityanath took power in 2017, said the realisation that the BJP government was on its way out had prompted a change in the Chief Minister's language.
"The BJP government is set to go. Hence the CM's language has changed. UP people want change. People want work done like was happening during the SP regime," Mr Yadav said today at a press conference in Lucknow, the state's capital.
Addressing a programme in Kushinagar on Sunday, Mr Adityanath had alleged that people did not get their monthly rations before 2017 like they do now.
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