Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Thursday threw shade at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his caution to the voters that Uttar Pradesh will “become Kashmir, Kerala and Bengal if they make a mistake.”
“If UP turns into Kerala as Yogi Adityanath fears, it will enjoy the best education, health services, social welfare, living standards and have a harmonious society in which people won’t be murdered in the name of religion and caste. That’s what the people of UP would want,” Pinarayi Vijayan tweeted.
In a video message last evening, hours before the start of the first phase of voting in Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath had urged voters to choose BJP while referring to Left-ruled Kerala, TMC-governed West Bengal and Kashmir.
“I have to tell you something from my heart. A lot of wonderful things have happened in these five years. Beware! If you miss, the labour of these five years will be spoiled. It would not take much time for Uttar Pradesh to become Kashmir, Kerala and Bengal,” Yogi Adityanath said in the video.
Opposition leader and senior Congress leader V D Satheesan also took to Twitter to take on Adityanath.
“Dear UP, vote to be like Kerala. Choose plurality, harmony. Inclusive development to medieval bigotry. Keralites, Bengalis and Kashmiris are also proud Indians,” read Satheeshan’s tweet.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor also responded to Yogi Adityanath’s comments in a tweet.
“UP will turn into Kashmir, Bengal or Kerala if BJP doesn’t come to power, Yogi Adityanath tells voters. UP should be so lucky!! Kashmir’s beauty, Bengal’s culture and Kerala’s education would do wonders for the place. UP’s wonderful: pity about its government,” Tharoor tweeted.
