Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said after Ayodhya, it looks like Kashi and Mathura are waking up too.Before claiming no communal riots took place in the state during recent festivals, he asserted that for the first time, namaz on the last Friday before Eid was not held on roads in Uttar Pradesh.
“Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti were held peacefully. This was the first time that the last Friday namaz before Eid was not held on the streets. For namaz there is a place of worship, the mosques where their religious programmes can be held,” he said.
Mentioning the removal of loudspeakers from religious places, Yogi Adityanath said, “You must have seen how the unnecessary noise was got rid of.”
At the first state executive meeting of the BJP after the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, he asked the party workers to start preparing for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and move forward with the target of winning 75 out of the state’s 80 seats.
In 2019, the BJP had won 62 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh while its ally Apna Dal(S) registered victory in two seats.
Referring to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple Corridor, he said, “After the beginning of the construction of the grand Ram temple in Ayodhya, the waking up (‘angadai’) of Kashi is before us.”
“All pilgrimages centres like Mathura Vrindavan, Vindhyavasini Dham, Naimish Dham are once again waking up (‘angdai li’). In this situation we all have to move forward once again,” the chief minister said.
His remarks came amid legal proceedings over the temple-mosque disputes in Mathura and Varanasi, also known as Kashi.
