UP Polls 2022: Akhilesh Yadav may even convert to get Muslim votes: UP minister Anand Swarup Shukla

Uttar Pradesh Minister Anand Swarup Shukla has alleged that Samajwadi Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav enjoys the patronage of Pakistan spy company ISI and mentioned he might even go for spiritual conversion to appease Muslims. He may additionally be getting financial assist from the neighbouring nation’s Inter-Companies Intelligence (ISI), the minister alleged whereas speaking to reporters at his residence on Tuesday.

“Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has develop into a problem for the Islamic world. Samajwadi Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav is getting all assist from them. Akhilesh is getting ‘sanrakshan aur sujhav’ (patronage and recommendation) from the ISI. It’s doable that he may additionally be getting financial assist from it,” Shukla, who a BJP chief, mentioned.

Shukla’s remarks come after Yadav in a speech in Hardoi on Sunday spoke of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the identical breath as leaders who fought for India’s independence.

“To appease Muslims, Yadav had carried out ‘namaz’ and noticed ‘roza’ (quick). He also can go for ‘matantaran’ (spiritual conversion) and ‘khatna’ to get their votes,” he mentioned, including that the previous chief minister was doing so on the behest of Pakistan.

In his speech, Yadav praised India’s ‘Iron Man’ Vallabhbhai Patel on his 146th beginning anniversary however raised eyebrows when he appeared to equate the 4 leaders, together with Jinnah.

“On the instructions of the ISI, Yadav is glorifying Jinnah. He’s issuing such statements that Pakistan and the Taliban need,” Shukla, who’s the minister of state for parliamentary affairs, alleged.

He claimed that Yadav’s comparability of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel with Jinnah was condemnable and that he ought to remorse it.

Throughout the public assembly in Hardoi, the SP chief had mentioned, “Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and (Muhammad Ali) Jinnah studied in the identical institute and have become barristers. They helped (India) get freedom and by no means backed away from any battle.”

Yadav had additionally referred to the ban imposed on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by Patel, the then dwelling minister, following the assassination of Gandhi in 1948.