Pahalgam terror attack | 'Sounding like Pakistan's spokespersons': Adityanath on remarks by SP leaders

Adityanath was addressing a public meeting in Deoria after launching developmental schemes worth several hundred crores.

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday accused the Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders of speaking like Pakistan’s spokesmen on the recent terror attack in Pahalgam in which 26 tourists were shot dead by the terrorists.

‘’The entire country is angry over the Pahalgam incident but the SP leaders have been speaking like Pakistan’s spokesmen,’’ Adityanath said while addressing a public meeting in Deoria after launching developmental schemes worth several hundred crores.

‘’There must be a limit to politics.....the way the SP leaders have commented on the Pahalgam killings, makes one think that spokesmen of Pakistan are speaking,’’ the chief minister said.

He claimed that some senior SP leaders had virtually given a clean chit to Pakistan in the Pahalgam terror attack case.

‘’SP president Akhilesh Yadav’s remark that he will not be visiting the widow of Shubham Dwivedi, who was among the victims of Pahalgam terror attack, as he did not know him, is shameful...what kind of statement is this?,’’ he said.

The chief minister said that these parties indulged in the politics of caste and their divisive politics would result in threat to the country’s security.

‘’The country must stand united on the issue of terrorism and fight together,’’ Adityanath said, adding that the country would be rid of the terrorists just like it managed to wipe out the naxalites.

On this occasion, the chief minister launched several developmental projects also worth hundreds of crores.