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‘Jinnah's followers tried to incite violence in western UP’: Yogi Adityanath at Jewar airport event
YB WEB DESK. Dated: 11/26/2021 12:29:35 PM
Lucknow, Nov 25 Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hit out those instigating “riots” in western Uttar Pradesh describing them as the supporters of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the pre-Independence leader who is widely considered responsible for the partition of India in 1947 an event that saw communal riots on a massive scale. Speaking at the foundation laying ceremony for the Jewar International Airport in western Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath said, “Farmers of this land at some point in the past tried to spread sweetness of sugarcane grown here. But some people caused a series of riots here spoiling the sweetness of sugarcane.” “Today, the country has to decide whether it wants to give new wings to the sweetness of sugarcane here or allow the followers of Jinnah commit the mischief of causing riots,” said Yogi Adityanath on Thursday. His remarks have come in the backdrop of violence in Lakhimpur Kheri during farmers’ protest and also days after Hyderabad MP and All India Majlis-e- Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi gave a call for turning the streets of Uttar Pradesh into Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh if the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was not withdrawn. The UP chief minister's comments also followed his stern warning against what he called "Talibanisa