Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday targeted Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi over a recent speech comparing politics in north and south India and said that the opposition leader was playing divisive politics.
“I was listening to a statement of a leader of a national party who has been elected from Uttar Pradesh many times and he is making fun of the people of the state (Uttar Pradesh) in Kerala and trying to divide the people. He has done it earlier too,” the chief minister told the state Assembly while speaking on Governor”s address to the joint session of both the houses.
Without naming Rahul Gandhi, Adityanath said the divisive mentality of the Congress party’s leaders poses serious danger to national security.
The comments by the chief minister evoked a sharp reaction from the Congress benches as they lodged a vociferous opposition.
Addressing a public gathering in Thiruvananthapuram, Rahul Gandhi had said, “For the first 15 years, I was an MP in the north. I had got used to a different type of politics. For me, coming to Kerala was very refreshing as suddenly I found that people are interested in issues and not just superficially but going into detail in issues.”
“It is this mentality that has posed a serious danger to national security,” Adityanath said, adding Amethi and Uttar Pradesh gave enough opportunities to the Gandhis but they preferred going to Italy instead of visiting their constituencies.
Rahul Gandhi, who was representing the Amethi constituency of Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2004, contested from the Wayanad seat in Kerala simultaneously in the 2019 general elections.
