“Who will decide who are the Pandavas, and who the Kauravas are?” This was a question Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav posed to Yogi Adityanath in his reaction to a statement made by the Uttar Pradesh chief minister.
Speaking in the state assembly on Wednesday, the chief minister had demanded “just” three villages (Ayodhya, Kashi, and Mathura) against the demand made by Lord Krishna for five villages for Pandavas in the epic Mahabharata.
In this context, the leader of the Opposition in the assembly, on Thursday, wanted to know who would decide who the Pandavas are and who are the Kauravas. He clarified his stand, saying, “For us, the Constitution and the courts are supreme.”
Taking a swipe at the ruling BJP, he asked, “What is the relevance of a double-engine government under which one lakh farmers committed suicide while the promise to double their income remains a far cry?”
He cited the NCRB report from 2014 till now to prove his point.
On Jayant Chaudhary joining the BJP-led NDA, the SP president said, “The BJP knows how to break parties. When to take whom, when to buy whom, when to silence which journalist, what budget to be given to which TV channel, the BJP knows it all.”
“The BJP,” he added, “also knows how to be dishonest, when to send the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the CBI, and the IT to whom.”
Yadav, however, said that the saffron party does not have an answer to why crime was on the rise and corruption was increasing despite all the control on the news. They also don’t have an answer to why young people were forced to work in Israel.