Adityanath questions meeting between activist Umar Khalid’s father and Akhilesh Yadav

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath on Thursday raised questions about a meeting between the father of activist Umar Khalid and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, reported PTI.

“You must have seen who recently came to meet with a party,” the chief minister said at an event in Lucknow . “Umar Khalid’s father. Umar Khalid who says ‘Bharat tere tukde honge [India, you will be divided]’. That person [Umar Khalid’s father] comes to meet the Samajwadi Party president and assures him not to worry as he was working for the Samajwadi Party.”

Khalid’s father, Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, who is the president of Welfare Party of India, had met Yadav on October 2. The Welfare Party of India had announced support for the Samajwadi Party for the state Assembly election to be held next year.

Khalid has been lodged in a prison for over a year in connection with a case related to the violence that broke out in Delhi in February 2020.

मुख्यमंत्री @myogiadityanath लखनऊ में भाजपा सामाजिक प्रतिनिधि सम्मेलन को सम्बोधित करते हुए…

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In response to Adityanath’s comments, Samajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary alleged that the chief minister was trying to polarise the Assembly polls on communal lines, reported The Indian Express.

Chaudhary claimed he was not aware…

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