AKHILESH REFERS TO ‘NOIDA JINX’, SAYS MODI, YOGI WON’T RETURN TO POWER
LUCKNOW: SP president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday referred to the ‘Noida jinx’ and said that both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath will not return to power as they “went there recently to re-inaugurate the Noida leg of Delhi Metro (Magenta Line), which I had already inaugurated.” The SP chief was addressing news persons here. ‘Noida jinx’ is the superstition prevalent among political parties and chief ministers in UP that a person, who goes to Noida during his or her chief ministership, sees the party losing the next elections.
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday referred to the ‘Noida jinx’ and said that both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath will not return to power as they “went there recently to re-inaugurate the Noida leg of Delhi Metro (Magenta Line), which I had already inaugurated.”
The SP chief was addressing news persons here.
‘Noida jinx’ is the superstition prevalent among political parties and chief ministers in UP that a person, who goes to Noida during his or her chief ministership, sees the party losing the next polls. Yogi, despite the jinx, went to Noida recently for the inauguration of the metro. And Modi, during the Noida rally, had rubbished the jinx by saying: “What jinx?” After becoming CM in March last year, Yogi had announced that he will visit all the 75 districts of the state to review law and order. In May, he launched a whirlwind tour of the state but avoided Noida.
As CM, Akhilesh did not step into Noida. So much so that he did not attend the Asian Development
Bank summit in May 2013 although PM Manmohan Singh was the chief guest. And instead of going over to Noida to meet the Dadri lynching victim’s family, he called the entire family to Lucknow. Akhilesh’s predecessors, including his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, Kalyan Singh and Rajnath Singh, too, avoided Noida. Even their rallies were organised in neighbouring Ghaziabad, Meerut, Bulandshahar
and Mathura but not in Noida.
The so-called ‘Noida jinx’ took root after then CM Veer Bahadur Singh was asked to step down in June 1988 .by the central leadership. Interestingly, he had returned from Noida.BSP chief Mayawati braved the superstition as CM (2007-12) and attended government programmes in Noida. When BSP lost power in 2012, the Noida jinx was back in the news.