Yogi Adityanath Slams Samajwadi Party Over MP's Alleged Taliban Praise

Yogi Adityanath said, "Look at the kind of barbarism being meted out to women there, to children in Afghanistan. Yet some people are shamelessly supporting the Taliban. These people should be exposed before society"".

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath brought up the issue of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in the state assembly today, the third day of its monsoon session. "People are supporting the Taliban. Look at the kind of barbarism being meted out to women there, to children in Afghanistan. Yet some people are shamelessly supporting the Taliban. These people should be exposed before society," the Chief Minister said in his address. His remarks came a day after a sedition case was filed against a Samajwadi Party MP and two others in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district over remarks that seemed to compare the Taliban to India's freedom fighters. On Monday, Samajwadi Party leader Shafiqur Rahman Barq -- the Lok Sabha MP from Sambhal -- told reporters that the Taliban "want Afghanistan to be free" and "want to run their own country". According to news agency Press Trust of India, Mr Barq called Taliban a "force that did not allow Russia or the United States to establish themselves in Afghanistan" and said the group's seizing control of that country was "an internal matter".