The Jinnah controversy refuses to die down ahead of elections in Uttar Pradesh.

From the controversy over the portrait of Pakistan’s founder at Aligarh Muslim University in 2018 to the 2020 Bihar elections, when the Congress gave a ticket to former AMU president Maskoor Ahmad Usmani; it has now travelled to Noida.

Slamming the previous Uttar Pradesh government led by Akhilesh Yadav, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday termed the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief “a Jinnah follower” and alleged that Yadav’s government incited a series of riots in the state when he was in power.

‘People cannot let the followers of Jinnah run riot’

Speaking on the occasion of the foundation laying stone ceremony of Noida International Airport here, Yogi said, “Some people caused a series of riots here. Today, the country has to decide whether it wants to give new wings to the sweetness of sugarcane here or let the followers of Jinnah run riot.”

Adityanath further thanked PM Modi to give Jewar airport to the western UP.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who laid the foundation stone of Noida International Airport (NIA) in Jewar, Gautam Buddha Nagar, said that for the first time after 7 decades of freedom, UP has started getting what it has always deserved.

‘Infrastructure is not politics for us but part of national policy’

UP is today fast becoming the most connected region of the country thanks to the efforts of double engine government, he added.

The PM said that the BJP saw the dream of constructing an international airport in Noida 20 years ago, however, it got stuck due to the tussle of previous governments sitting at Lucknow and Delhi.

“Even the previous State government wrote a letter to stop the project. But now we are witnessing its ‘bhumi pujan’,” he added.

Infrastructure is not politics for us but part of national policy, the PM said adding that his government ensures that projects don’t get stuck and are completed in time.