Yogi Adityanath slams opposition over Maha Kumbh politics

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has slammed criticised opposition parties for their views on the Kumbh Mela.

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00:00All right, big news now coming in.

00:01Remember that Kumbh has become the center

00:04of a political showdown.

00:05Barely a few days now to go for the Kumbh Mela

00:07to conclude, Yogi Adityanath now slamming the opposition

00:10parties over the Mahakumbh politics.

00:14He's targeted Mamata Banerjee earlier as well,

00:16but here's what Yogi Adityanath is saying now

00:19after Prime Minister Modi also defended

00:21the Kumbh, the arrangements by Yogi Adityanath government.

00:25Here's what Chief Minister Yogi has to say.

00:29So remember, both the top leaders of the government

00:33from the center, from the state, are defending the Kumbh

00:36while the celebrities are making a beeline.

00:38Katrina Kaif is the latest to have arrived at the Kumbh.

00:41There are other celebrities who already paid obeisance,

00:45already have taken the holy dip, and now more

00:48are in the queue as well.

00:50So these are the latest images coming in.

00:53Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said,

00:55vultures only saw dead bodies in the Kumbh.

01:25All right, so Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

01:33basically responding to the jibe of the Mrityu Kumbh as well.

01:37Mamata Banerjee, the Bengal CM, had

01:39said this Mahakumbh has become Mrityu Kumbh.

01:41Akhilesh Yadav had supported it and added,

01:43horrific arrangements have been made.

01:45It's not as what is being publicized.

01:48It's all for publicity and tourism,

01:50not for the devotion as it used to be.

01:52And now, as a result of that, Prime Minister Modi

01:55leading the defense for Kumbh and for the arrangements

01:58for how it's been organized.

01:59Meanwhile, celebrities make a beeline.

02:01Akshay Kumar also, in fact, praised

02:04the arrangements that were made.

02:09So listen in now in the latest to what Chief Minister Yogi

02:12Adityanath said.

02:15And I would like to thank you for your courage.

02:18Today you said, sir, I am a Sanatani.

02:20Being a Sanatani from a socialist party,

02:23from a socialist.

02:25No, that's what I mean, because

02:30you socialists,

02:31first you rejected the existence of Ram.

02:37You rejected the existence of Lord Ram,

02:38the existence of Lord Krishna.

02:40If you remember, in 2017.

02:46So remember, this comes barely a day after

02:49Prime Minister Modi in Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh said

02:52that defending the Kumbh,

02:54look at the arrangements that have been made.

02:56Look at the number of people who have come.

02:58But there are some people and a certain group

03:01that can only see negativity,

03:02that only wants to go after the religious practices,

03:06the culture and the popularity of the biggest congregation.

03:09Remember, we were talking about,

03:10according to official estimates,

03:12that over 60 crore people have till now

03:15come to this congregation,

03:17not just at the Triveni Sangam,

03:18but overall at the Kumbh Mela.

03:20He also, Prime Minister, spoke about

03:22the volunteers, the doctors who are treating people for free.

03:26All of them who are volunteers have come by themselves

03:29to help people who are coming to the Kumbh.

03:33We had advanced the project of Mathura, Vrindavan and British pilgrimage.

03:37There was a statement from the Socialist Party

03:40that we had said that there will be a very big statue of Krishna there.

03:45So, it had come from you that you will also put up a very big Duryodhana.

03:50So, we said that you have to put up Duryodhana.

03:52You have thought of Duryodhana, what can we do?

03:54We had advanced the project of Mathura, Vrindavan and British pilgrimage.

03:58There was a statement from the Socialist Party

04:01that we had said that there will be a very big statue of Krishna there.

04:07So, it had come from you that you will also put up a very big Duryodhana.

04:11So, we said that you have to put up Duryodhana.

04:13You have thought of Duryodhana, what can we do?

04:37Latent nonsense cannot be a political message to people of India.

04:43That is, tomorrow Adityanath says that anybody who has a full hair on his head is anti-Sanatani

04:49doesn't mean that everybody has to go bald.

04:51The reality is that this government, not in Parliament, not after Prime Minister's death,

04:56not in the assembly, has told people that how many people died in this country.

05:01They were tongue-tied in front of NGT when they were asked about water samples,

05:07the nature of bacteria in the water samples.

05:10While Adityanath on the same day was flashing some vague report in the assembly

05:15saying that the water is so clean that you can drink.

05:17The entire NGT is at one level of this very Janata Party.

05:21They want to drink water from mineral water, distilled water,

05:24but they want people to drink water that NGT is saying is unsafe

05:29and unhygienic for a bath.

05:31So this is the reality of today.

05:33The Railway Minister, who is also a real minister, will not resign when people died in Stampede.

05:38The Prime Minister, whose suit was sold or auctioned for 10 lakh rupees,

05:42his government gave a compensation of 10 lakh rupees for anybody who died in Stampede

05:48because the Railway Department was at fault.

05:52The common man's life is a joke for the Janata Party,

05:55and propaganda is their true policy.

05:58Ranjan Tiwari, what do you say to the numbers that both PM and CM have said,

06:02saying look at the number of people still coming,

06:04whether members of the public or from the celebrity world,

06:08they all want to be a part of this congregation,

06:10while the opposition Netas are only spreading negativity about it.

06:15Well, ask this question to anybody who has lost their near and dear one,

06:20has given a faulty 10 lakh rupees as compensation.

06:24Only people who are absolutely cruel and take no accountability

06:29can crack a joke on people that in a country of 140 crore people,

06:3460 crore have gone to foam.

06:36These numbers are just a samasha that BBC wants to present,

06:39because these numbers will dumb you down

06:42and not let you think about the real problems which you face in life,

06:46whether it is jobs, whether it is the Stampede,

06:48whether it is the lack of social security,

06:51whether it is the lack of health systems.

06:54These are the real problems you face.

06:56We talk about numbers.

06:58In this government, for any exam that the government has announced,

07:02even if it has leaked, over 200 applicants have written the exam.

07:06In this government, more than probably the people who visited it at home,

07:10don't have applied for various jobs and they have been denied jobs.

07:14So these numbers are a joke on people of India,

07:16because the government wants to dumb every citizen down with numbers

07:20and not own the responsibility of what the citizens need, accountability.

07:24They don't want to take the responsibility of the quality of water that NGT is saying.

07:27They don't want to take the responsibility of the Stampede.

07:30They don't want to take the responsibility of the poor manner in which they have operated

07:35by backing people as if they don't matter.

07:50But here's what Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of the state said,

07:54and this comes barely 24 hours after, Prime Minister Modi also made a defence.

08:21The existence of Lord Ram, the existence of Lord Krishna, is nothing but a lie.

08:26If you remember, in 2017, we had advanced the plan for the development of Mathura, Vrindavan and Brihadarashtra.

08:32There was a statement from the Socialist Party,

08:35that there, we had said, a great statue of Krishna will be erected there.

08:40So it had come from you, that you will also erect a huge statue of Duryodhana.

08:45So we said, you erect the statue of Duryodhana,

08:47what can we do about your thoughts on erecting the statue of Duryodhana?

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