Lucknow/Siwan

Bihar, 31 Oct (HS): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath accused

Congress Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru of insulting the country's first

President, Rajendra Prasad, by refusing to attend the inauguration of the

restored Somnath temple. A top BJP leader made the comment while addressing an

electoral rally in Bihar's Siwan district, which is where Prasad was born. People

in Bihar have rejected the Congress because it has disrespected pioneers such

as Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Rajendra Prasad, and Karpoori

Thakur. Even the party's own previous

president, Sitaram Kesri, who is from this state, was humiliated, according to

Adityanath. He further stated that when Rajendra babu intended to attend the

inauguration of the Somnath temple in Gujarat, Congress Prime Minister Nehru

urged him not to go.

But it was a

matter of faith for Rajendra babu, who declared he would sooner give up his

post than not attend the occasion, according to the Uttar Pradesh chief

minister during the rally. The BJP leader further said that the Congress and

its Bihar allies RJD have always been disrespectful to our heritage, citing the

stopping of Lord Ram's chariot as an evident allusion to the arrest of BJP

founder Lal Krishna Advani while on the Ram Rath Yatra decades ago. Yogi also

pointed out that the Centre's affidavit filed before the Supreme Court when the

Congress-led UPA was in power stated that there was no evidence of Lord Ram's

existence. However, both the BJP and the NDA have always valued our heritage. We

fulfilled our commitment to build the Ram temple at Ayodhya (mandir wahin

banayenge – on the site of the disputed edifice known as the Babri

Masjid), Adityanath added.

He further stated

that if the NDA held power in Bihar, the mafia will be eradicated, just as it

is in Uttar Pradesh, where they are deprived of their ill-gotten gains and many

have been consigned to hell. Notably, the

Yogi Adityanath administration has been known to demolish criminal properties,

earning the nickname bulldozer baba, and a number of feared

gangsters have been slain in police encounters in recent years.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi