Adityanath takes a dig at Cong’s temple run
LUCKNOW : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday pulled out a statement made by the Congress during the Gujarat election campaign describing party chief Rahul Gandhi as a ‘janeu-dhari Brahmin’ (one who wears the sacred thread) to state that a series of electoral defeats at the hands of the BJP had forced an ideological shift in Congress.
Adityanath said the temple run of a Congress leader whose forefather had described himself as an “accidental Hindu” was no accident.
He was speaking at a convention of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the youth wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Lucknow’s Para road.
“Those who earlier avoided temples for fear of being dubbed communal now require temple (visits) more than us. This shift has been forced upon them (Congress) through efforts of nationalist cadres like you. The series of electoral debacles are thus a lesson (for the Congress) to not ignore the country’s majoritarian viewpoint, else the country’s democracy will dump them in a place from where it will be difficult to return,” Adityanath said.
The Congress, whose improved showing in the Gujarat elections was also attributed to Rahul’s strategy to visit series of temples, predictably denied ‘accidental Hindu’ charge that Adityanath obviously made about the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Rahul Gandhi’s great grandfather.
“Nehru never called himself a Hindu by accident. It’s a BJP canard,” said Congress secretary Devendra Nath Singh. However, Professor Kaushal Kishore, the head of the political science department of BHU, cited Nehru’s Discovery of India to confirm Yogi’s attribution.
Adityanath promised a job
boom in the most populous state.
He said recruitment process of 68,000 teachers in the state has been initiated.
This is part of the 1.37 lakh teacher recruitments planned by his government, he said.
“We are also going to recruit 1.62 lakh PAC jawans and police followers. We also plan to reform
the UPPSC and open recruitments to 60,000 posts in a transparent manner.
NO ARBITRARY FEE IN SCHOOLS’
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath said his government won’t allow schools to charge fees arbitrarily.
He said his government was even working towards a uniform course curriculum regime.
“We have different curriculum for UP Board, ICSE and CBSE. Then we also have the Madarsa Board which is a unique case. We want to streamline and modernise the education set-up,” said Adityanath.