Yogi Adityanath Criticizes Akhilesh Yadav's 2012 Statement on Lucknow Monuments

By A Staff Reporter

Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, while addressing the public in Gorakhpur, highlighted the progress made in welfare schemes, emphasizing that all castes in the state have been provided with homes, ration cards, and Ayushman Bharat health cards. He also took a dig at the previous Samajwadi Party (SP) government, particularly its leader Akhilesh Yadav, for his 2012 statement regarding monuments in Lucknow.

“Today, all the castes have been given houses exactly where they were given 'pattas'. They were given ration cards, Ayushman cards...” Adityanath said, underscoring the steps taken by the BJP-led state government to promote inclusive welfare. He further criticized Akhilesh Yadav’s remarks from 2012, where the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh had threatened to demolish monuments built in Lucknow in honor of social justice fighters.

“In 2012, the then Chief Minister of Samajwadi Party (Akhilesh Yadav) said that all the monuments built in Lucknow in the name of the fighters for social justice would be demolished. The BJP had protested this and said that if you demolish them, we will fight you,” Adityanath added, signaling the BJP’s strong opposition to such a move.