Visits to temples by Rahul a sham: Yogi

Ahmedabad, Oct. 14: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday termed as a “sham” Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s recent visits to temples in Gujarat during his recent campaign tour in the poll-bound state.

Tearing into the Congress and its leadership, Adityanath also said they have no right to berate the Gujarat model of development'.

“As far as Rahul Gandhi's visits to temples are concerned, I am surprised. Mr Rahul Gandhi's ‘pakhand’ and ‘dhong’ (hypocrisy and sham) is not going to work,” Mr Adityanath said, speaking to reporters at Nakhatrana in Kutch during BJP’s Gaurav Yatra' election campaign.

“The same Congress was eager to destroy the Ram Setu. During a hearing in the Supreme Court, Congress government had raised question about the existence of Sri Ram and Sri Krishna,” he claimed, and asked, “If the party does not believe in the existence of Sri Ram and Sri Krishna, then why Rahul Gandhi wants to take credit by visiting temples."

“If the country is facing poverty, terrorism and Naxalism, then the Congress is to be held responsible for that. Congress and Rahul Gandhi have no right to discuss development; even the Rajiv Gandhi

Foundation has accepted the (genuineness of) development of Gujarat,” he said.

The BJP government is not doing the politics of “caste and dynasty,”” the chief minister added.