Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath assured that people from all religions are safe in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled state. The chief minister said that if Hindus are safe, then Muslims are also safe in his state.
“A Muslim family living among 100 Hindu families is safe. It has the freedom to do all its religious deeds. But let alone one, even if 50 Hindu families live among 100 Muslim families, can they be safe? No,” Adiyanath said in an interview with news agency ANI.
“Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan are examples before you. If someone is being hit, we should be careful before we get hit…In Uttar Pradesh, Muslims are the safest. If Hindus are safe, then they are also safe. If there were riots here in UP before 2017, if Hindu shops were burning, Muslim shops were also burning. After 2017, the riots stopped. Now, if Hindus are safe, Muslims are also safe,” the chief minister said.
Adityanath said that he is an ordinary citizen of Uttar Pradesh and a Yogi who wishes for everyone’s happiness. “I believe in everyone’s support and development,” the UP CM said in the interview.
Yogi Adityanath-led government faced criticism earlier this month for covering the mosques during Holi in Uttar Pradesh with tarpaulin. The chief minister said there were strict instructions not to throw colours at the mosque, but colours do not harm anyone.
“If you are playing with colours, it does not harm anyone’s existence. You tell me. It is not like that; there are rallies during Muharram. Doesn’t the shadow of their flag fall on any Hindu house near the temple? Does it make the Hindu house impure? These were strict instructions not to put anything that is not coloured. But even then, if it has fallen, then the administration is cleaning it and repainting it,” Yogi Adityanath said.
The day Indian Muslims Understand…
The chief minister also commented on Hyderabad MP’s remarks that “Muslims are in danger.”
“Muslims are not in danger. Their (Asaduddin Owais) vote bank politics is in danger. The day Indian Muslims understand their ancestors, these people will have to pack their bags and leave…Indian Muslims will have to remember that they are safe only when Hindus and Hindu tradition are safe,” said the Uttar Pradesh chief minister.
If Hindus are safe, then Muslims are also safe.
On March 17, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi claimed that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill is intended to snatch away graveyards, khanqahs, dargahs from Muslims. The Hyderabad MP joined the All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s (AIMPLB) protest against the Bill in New Delhi.
“This Bill is not for saving Waqf property, not for removing encroachers but for ending Waqf property, for snatching away graveyards, khanqahs, dargahs from Muslims,” Owaisi said during the protest at the national capital’s iconic Jantar Mantar
The day Indian Muslims understand their ancestors, these people will have to pack their bags and leave.
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