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Adityanath hits out at Rahul Gandhi, asks him to stop defaming people of UP

The UP CM accused him of spreading poison in the society

Rahul-Gandhi-Yogi-Adityanath-PTI Collage of Rahul Gandhi and Yogi Adityanath | PTI

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Tuesday, hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his tweet in which he condemned the attack on an elderly Muslim man who was allegedly beaten up and asked to chant 'Jai Shri Ram'.

Tagging a news report on the incident, Rahul Gandhi had said, "I am not willing to accept that true devotees of Lord Ram can do such a thing." "Such cruelty is far removed from humanity and is shameful for both society and religion," the former Congress chief tweeted in Hindi.

Reacting to the Congress leader's tweet, the UP CM accused him of spreading poison in the society. "The first lesson of Lord Shri Ram is - 'Speak the truth' which you have never done in life," Adityanath tweeted in Hindi.

"You should be ashamed that even after the police ruled out that it was not a communal crime, you are spreading poison in the society. You are shaming humanity because of the greed for power. Stop humiliating, defaming the people of Uttar Pradesh," he further tweeted.

It is to be noted that police had ruled out any communal angle saying Sufi Abdul Samad was attacked by six men—Hindus and Muslims—who were unhappy over the amulets he had sold them.

The purported video which went viral on social media shows four men beating Samad up, chopping his beard and asking him to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' in the Loni area of Ghaziabad. 

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