Rahul Gandhi spreading poison in society with tweets, says Yogi Adityanath

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has accused Congress chief Rahul Gandhi of spreading “poison in society” with his tweets after the police dominated out a communal angle in the assault of an aged Muslim man in Ghaziabad.

The police registered an FIR towards social media website Twitter, The Wire journalists Saba Naqvi and Rana Ayyub and fact-checker Mohammad Zubair, amongst others, for allegedly sharing on Twitter a video of the incident and giving it a communal color with out verifying the main points.

The FIR was lodged below varied sections of the Indian Penal Code.

The FIR accuses the journalists and political activists of making an attempt to unfold discord between Hindus and Muslims and disruption of public peace.

Tweeting a information hyperlink of the incident, in which it was reported that the person was crushed up allegedly for not chanting Jai Shri Ram and had his beard lower, Mr. Gandhi stated he didn’t consider that true followers of Lord Ram might do such a factor.

“Such cruelty is far from humanity and is shameful for both society and religion,” he stated on Twitter.

Mr. Adityanath responded to the tweet by saying that Mr. Gandhi ought to really feel ashamed for making an attempt to “spread poison in society” regardless of the details of the case having been unravelled by the police.

The CM accused Mr. Gandhi of bringing to disgrace humanity for the greed of energy. “Stop insulting and defaming the people of Uttar Pradesh,” he tweeted.

State Cabinet Minister Sidharth Nath Singh stated the Opposition, particularly the SP, was making an attempt to present a communal color to the incident in a bid to seize energy in U.P. in 2022.

“BJP government will not allow U.P. to once again become a bastion of communal forces, which was seen during the rule of SP,” he stated.