Yogi Takes Swipe at Akhilesh During Lucknow Uttarakhand Festival

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took a swipe at Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav without naming him at the Uttarakhand Festival in Lucknow. He said some people call residents of Uttarakhand “infiltrators” and remarked that without a daughter of Uttarakhand, “they would be grazing buffaloes in Saifai.”. Adityanath attended the event on November 11, beside the Gomti River. The festival began on November 9 and is scheduled to run for 14 days. Performers presented Uttarakhand’s folk culture, traditions and heritage through music and dance. Adityanath also referred to his own ties to the state and said former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Govind Ballabh Pant came from there. He criticised what he described as sympathy for a mafia figure, contrasting it with a lack of concern for Uttarakhand’s traditions and public sentiment.