In an indirect jibe at Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said he was “un-upyogi” (useless) for those political parties who support the mafia and corrupt people in the state.
Speaking to India Today on the sidelines of a poll rally in Mathura, CM Yogi said, “I am un-upyogi (useless) for those parties who supported mafia, criminals, terrorists, smugglers and the corrupt. When the government takes action against such people, then it is natural that these groups would oppose us.”
CM Yogi Adityanath was responding to a remark made by Akhilesh Yadav where he had called him “useless” or “un-upyogi”.
“Yesterday, I was watching that when income tax raids were happening, the Samajwadi Party was feeling pain. How can someone’s wealth double in five years? All this could have happened in the government of the Samajwadi Party,” CM Yogi said, referring to the income tax raids at the homes of Samajwadi Party leaders and supporters on Saturday.
Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘UP-Yogi’ (useful) for Yogi Adityanath, Akhilesh Yadav had on Saturday said in a tweet, “The daughter of Hathras, the farmers of Lakhimpur, the trader of Gorakhpur, women who are feeling insecure, unemployed youths, the Dalits, and the backward class (people) are saying for UP, the current government is not useful, it is useless.”
In a public address in Shahjahanpur, PM Modi coined a new slogan “UP plus Yogi bahut hai upyogi” to praise Adityanath for “eliminating mafias” and undertaking developmental work in the state.
