Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday sought to compare the regimes of his rivals in Uttar Pradesh to that of 'Kansa', the mythical tyrant ruler of Mathura, who had imprisoned his sister Devki and killed her six children before being killed by Lord Krishna, and said that the construction of Ram Temple could start only as there was a BJP government at the Centre and the state.
Addressing a public meeting at Mathura, known as the 'Braj Bhoomi' (land of Krishna), Adityanath also once again raked up kabristan and said that the previous spent the public money on building boundary walls around graveyards. "This government is spending the same money on development of places of religious importance," he added.
"It then seemed as if Kansa was ruling Mathura....criminal elements enjoyed patronage then," the chief minister remarked.
"The construction of the Ram Temple was on in Ayodhya.....did you expect the Congress or BSP to build the same.....as far as babua (Akhilesh Yadav) is concerned, he would have ordered firing on those constructing the Ram Temple," Adityanath said.
He also accused his rivals of supporting the rioters. "Those who support the rioters, do not like the developmental works of the government," Adityanath added. On Tuesday, prime minister Narenda Modi had accused the Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav of being sympathetic to the terrorists.
Earlier also Adityanath had compared Akhilesh with Jinnah and called SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav as Akhilesh's 'abbajaan'.
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