Blaming the Congress for India’s Partition in 1947, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday stated that if a leader like Narendra Modi had been present then, India would have remained undivided.
Addressing a gathering at Lok Bhavan here on the occasion of Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, he alleged that India is paying the price for the Congress’s ‘cowardice’ and described the Partition as one of the darkest chapters in human history. “Areas of Punjab and Bengal—home to large populations that were subsequently affected by the division—were handed over to Pakistan. During the Partition, millions were forced to abandon their homes and become refugees.
“Driven by a lust for power, an eternal nation was pushed towards Partition and fragmented,” he said. It is essential to bring the agony of the massacres and displacement that occurred at that time to the attention of today’s generation,” he said.
“A Samajwadi Party leader named a university after a person responsible for acting against the country’s independence and responsible for Partition. That same Samajwadi Party is now saying they will make him the home minister.
They very well know they are not coming to power, however this also exposes their shameful mindset,” he said.
Referring to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the chief minister stated that the Opposition spread confusion across the country regarding the law’s provisions. Congress members had gone to great lengths to protect the entire estate of the Nawab of Mahmudabad, he added.
He also said that this property should have been distributed among the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains arriving from Pakistan.
