SP’s guarded reaction to ‘abbajaan’ remark of CM Yogi

Samajwadi Party, in a guarded reaction to the “abbajaan” comment of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said the political leaders should observe courtesy.

“Yogi Adityanath is no small person, he is a senior leader and chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and the people never like such kind of political discourse from the chief minister. Parliamentary and civilised language must be used in political discourse,” said Samajwadi Party spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary.

He said, “The Samajwadi Party no longer takes such jibe by the chief minister seriously as Yogi Adityanath has made such a comment for the second time about our party chief, Akhilesh Yadav.”

The SP leader claimed that the BJP knows that it has lost the support and confidence of the common man and the chief minister out of frustration is speaking in intemperate language. He said the electorate of the state would give a befitting reply to such utterances in 2022 UP assembly elections.

Slamming the previous state governments for what he said was their “casteist and dynastic mentality” and “politics of appeasement”, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday had said that before 2017, those saying “abbajaan” used to “digest” ration meant for poor but now everyone was benefitting equally from development under his administration.

Yogi said, “Today you are getting ration. Were you getting this ration before 2017? Because back then, those saying ‘abbajaan’ used to digest the ration. Back then, the ration meant for Kushinagar used to reach Nepal and Bangladesh. Today, if someone tries to swallow the ration of the poor, he will end up in jail. We are working with this commitment.”