To Yogi’s ‘2 Namoone’ Jibe, Akhilesh Hits Back, Cites ‘Rift’ Between Delhi and Lucknow

Making an oblique reference to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday had a major political attack at opposition leaders, saying that there were two namoone or specimens who preferred to leave the country whenever a major issue was at stake in the country.

The comments were made by the chief minister who was responding to the allegations leveled by the Samajwadi Party on an alleged illicit trade in codeine-based cough syrup, on the second day of winter session of the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, according to a report by the news agency PTI. Ignoring the charges of the opposition, Adityanath made a proposal that the opposition was politically motivated and not factual.

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He accused that the matter was directed to potential participation of the people affiliated with the Samajwadi Party, that money laundering on the case had passed through the account of an office-bearer of the party Lohia Vahini. He added that the Special Task Force was investigating the issue.

Adityanath mentioned but did not name anyone, that one of the two namoone was at Delhi and the other at Lucknow, and both were inclined to vanish whenever a serious debate was going on in the country. He also made fun of Akhilesh Yadav whom he frequently calls Babua at the rallies and indicated that he will soon be taking off to a foreign trip as his party was still making slogans in the Assembly.

“There are two namoone in the country, one in Delhi and the other in Lucknow. Whenever there's a discussion in the country, these individuals run away,” he said, as quoted by the agency.

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Akhilesh Yadav hits back

Akhilesh Yadav made a retaliatory blow and suggested that Adityanath made an open admission of divisions within the BJP. When the former chief minister spoke at the Assembly and subsequently posted it on a social media platform X, he stated that the comment was an internal tussle of the party between the leadership in Delhi and the state unit in Lucknow.

Terming the statement as a self-acceptance, Yadav remarked that it was a surprise to see the so-called Delhi-Lucknow power tussle so much in the open.

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