Will you be able to get the Hanuman Chalisa recited at Jama Masjid?’: CM Yogi Adityanath’s scathing attack on the opposition in Ayodhya. ‘Will you be able to get the Hanuman Chalisa recited at Jama Masjid?’: CM Yogi Adityanath’s scathing attack on the opposition in Ayodhya.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who visited Ayodhya, in his familiar aggressive style has fiercely targeted the opposition parties, especially Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP). While addressing a public meeting, CM Yogi raised a direct and challenging question whether the opposition parties will be able to muster the courage to get Hanuman Chalisa recited in Jama Masjid? This statement of Yogi Adityanath has brought a new boil in the politics of the state, where he is continuously vocal against the politics of ‘appeasement’.

Attack on Hindutva and appeasement politics

Chief Minister Yogi made it clear in his address that his government talks about ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’, but any kind of compromise in matters of faith is not acceptable. Questioning the silence of the opposition parties, he said that those who talk big during elections, why do they limit their secularism only to a particular community? Yogi tried to convey the message that it should be the moral responsibility of every political party to protect Indian culture and respect the sentiments of the majority society, but the opposition is only engaged in vote bank politics.

Yogi’s mission ‘double engine’ from Ayodhya

This statement of CM Yogi from the holy land of Ayodhya is not only a political attack, but it is also a strategy to further sharpen the Hindutva agenda. Referring to the development works of Ayodhya, he said that those who earlier used to shy away from taking the name of Ayodhya, are today in a race to prove themselves devotees of Ram. Yogi claimed that Uttar Pradesh has now changed and there is ‘rule of law’ and not appeasement. With the election season looming, this sharp statement by the CM is an attempt to ensure that the main ideological base of the BJP (Hindutva) remains completely at the centre, thereby cornering the opposition parties in the upcoming elections.