Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday took a dig at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who had criticized AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal for the state of cleanliness of Yamuna during the campaign for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections.
Yadav asked whether Adityanath could drink Yamuna water in Mathura in his state.
Campaigning for the BJP on Thursday for the Delhi Assembly elections, Adityanath alleged that former Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal had committed a sin by turning Yamuna into a “dirty drain”.
The UP CM, whose cabinet took a dip in the Sangam in Prayagraj on Wednesday, asked if Kejriwal and his ministers could take a bath in the Yamuna. Adityanath said, “If he has any moral courage then he should answer.”
Yadav wrote a post on X in response to his comment, but did not name anyone.
“Before challenging others, people should have the courage to drink the water of Yamuna that flows through Mathura in their state,” the SP chief said in a Hindi post.
In his election speech in Delhi’s Kirari, Adityanath had said that the devotees and saints of Mathura-Vrindavan are victims of AAP’s ‘sins’ as Yamuna water reaches the state in the form of dirty drains.
He accused AAP and Arvind Kejriwal of never cooperating with the central government for cleaning Yamuna under the Namami Gange project.
Yadav’s Samajwadi Party and Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party are constituents of the India Alliance, which was formed to counter the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
