Mamata govt unable to stop cow smuggling, love jihad due to appeasement: Yogi

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday attacked the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal using emotive issues such as love jihad and smuggling of cows.

Adityanath was speaking at an election rally in Malda district on Tuesday. Adityanath was quoted by ANI as saying, "West Bengal has always been a land of cultural nationalism in India. It has been the land of the revolution for India's freedom struggle. Today, it hurts us, the entire country, when we see an environment of anarchy here."

Emphasising the BJP's determination to win the West Bengal Assembly election, Adityanath said, "The national leadership of BJP and every worker of the party has come here to connect to the Bengali brothers and sisters to re-establish the identity of Bengal and carry forward a new change through this."

Adityanath also referred to the use of the 'Jai Shri Ram' slogan at events that Mamata Banerjee had objected to repeatedly.

Adityanath was quoted by ANI as saying, "Durga Puja gets prohibited in Bengal today, cow slaughter is forcefully started during Eid. People's sentiments are toyed with through cow smuggling. The state government remains silent. Now, it attempted to ban slogan of 'Jai Shri Ram' and attacks are executed."

Adityanath recounted the firing on Karsevaks, who were campaigning to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya, ordered by the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh in late 1990. "I'd like to tell the Bengal government and request Mamata didi that there was a government in Uttar Pradesh that used to fire bullets at lord Ram devotees in Ayodhya. You can see the condition of that government now. Now, it's TMC government's turn in Bengal,” Adityanath declared.

Adityanath noted, "'Love jihad' is being executed here. We made a law in UP. But there is appeasement politics here. So, state government is unable to stop cow smuggling and love jihad—dangerous activities that will show results in the time to come."