'Encounters Based On Religion...': Samajwadi Party MP Attacks Yogi Adityanath After Caste Remark Row

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Last Updated:May 16, 2025, 08:43 IST

Samajwadi Party's Ram Gopal Yadav accused Yogi Adityanath of committing caste- and religion-based atrocities, including mendacious cases and spot demolitions successful Uttar Pradesh.

Ram Gopal Yadav (L)/Yogi Adityanath (R) (Photos: PTI)

Samajwadi Party person Ram Gopal Yadav, who connected Thursday sparked a controversy by talking astir Wing Commander Vyomika Singh and the row implicit a BJP minister’s remark connected Colonel Sophia Qureshi, connected Friday accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister of committing atrocities against minorities.

In a lengthy X post, Yadav besides claimed his Thursday remark was misinterpreted by the Chief Minister, who tweeted against him.

He besides asserted mendacious cases are being filed against people, based connected religion, caste, and class, successful Uttar Pradesh, and that their properties are besides razed aft labelling them arsenic gangsters.

“In immoderate states of North India, particularly successful Uttar Pradesh, wherever mendacious cases are being filed against radical based connected religion, caste, and class, encounters are being carried retired based connected caste and religion, properties are being seized by labeling radical arsenic gangsters based connected caste and religion, atrocities are being committed against women based connected caste, religion, and class, and postings of employees and officers are being done based connected caste, religion, and class" Yadav wrote successful an X station successful Hindi.

“Yesterday, successful a program, I spoke astir radical with specified a corrupt mentality. I said that Colonel Sophia was abused due to the fact that her religion was identified from her name, and Foreign Secretary Mistry was besides abused. If these abusers had known that Vyomika Singh is simply a Jatav and Air Marshal Avdhesh Bharti is simply a Yadav, they would not person spared these officers from their abuses either," helium wrote.

“I americium astonished that the Chief Minister, nether whose chemoreceptor unimaginable atrocities are being committed against minorities, Dalits, and backward classes, tweeted astir my connection without adjacent listening to it fully. I person nary complaints against those media channels that had taken implicit Islamabad and Rawalpindi, due to the fact that nary 1 trusts them but the ruling party," a unsmooth translation of Yadav’s station suggested.

Soon aft Yadav’s remark connected Thursday had gone viral, Yogi Adityanath had condemned the same, saying that those serving successful the Indian Army are not looked done the lens of casteism.

He had besides accused Yadav of attempting to disagreement the country’s patriotism successful the authorities of appeasement and ballot banks.

“The service azygous is not viewed done the lens of ‘casteism.’ Every worker of the Indian Army upholds ‘national duty,’ not representing immoderate caste oregon religion," Yogi Adityanath had tweeted.

“The effort by the National General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party to confine a brave girl wrong the boundaries of caste not lone displays their party’s narrow-minded reasoning but is besides a gross insult to the army’s valor and the nation’s pride."

“This is the aforesaid mentality that dares to disagreement adjacent patriotism successful the authorities of appeasement and ballot banks. The nationalist volition erstwhile again respond to this perverse casteist mindset," the Chief Minister had posted successful Hindi.

RAM GOPAL YADAV’s REMARK OVER VYOMIKA SINGH’s CASTE

On Thursday, speaking astatine an lawsuit successful Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad, Yadav had remarked that Colonel Sophia Qureshi was targeted by Madhya Pradesh curate Vijay Shah arsenic she is simply a Muslim, but Wing Commander Vyomika Singh was spared, reasoning she was Rajput.

Wing Commander Singh was a regular look during the property briefings connected India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’ against Pakistan, on with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Colonel Sophia Qureshi.

Yadav besides took a excavation astatine the BJP organising the ‘Tiranga Yatra’ crossed the country, and said, “These radical (BJP) are taking retired the Tiranga Yatra, they bash everything lone for elections. What is the request to instrumentality retired the Tiranga Yatra? If determination is simply a need, past the full state should beryllium taken into confidence, each the governmental parties should beryllium taken into confidence."

“Were those warring successful ‘Operation Sindoor’ the BJP people?" Yadav asked.

Referring to the objectionable remark by Vijay Shah connected Colonel Qureshi, Yadav said, “One of their ministers abused Colonel Qureshi. The precocious tribunal has ordered registration of a lawsuit against him again, but helium did not cognize who Vyomika Singh was and neither did helium cognize astir Air Marshal AK Bharti, otherwise, these radical would person abused them too."

“Let maine archer you, Vyomika Singh is simply a Jatav from Haryana, and Air Marshal Bharti is simply a Yadav from Purnia. So each 3 were from PDA (Picchda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak oregon Backwards, Dalits and minorities). One was abused arsenic she was a Muslim, the different was spared reasoning that she was a Rajput… and determination was nary accusation (to them) astir Bharti," Yadav had said.

“When it came successful the newspaper, they were forced to deliberation astir what to bash now."

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YADAV’s REMARK DREW POLITICAL REACTIONS

Attacking some the Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bahujan Samaj Party main Mayawati wrote successful a station connected X, “The full state is agreed and arrogant of the valour of ‘Operation Sindoor’ of the Indian Army against the terrorists successful Pakistan."

“In specified a situation, it is highly unfair to judge/divide the service connected the ground of religion and caste. The mistake that the BJP curate made successful this regard, the aforesaid elder SP person has besides made today, which is shameful and condemnable," she wrote.

UP’s Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya successful a station connected X wrote, “The Army is beyond caste and religion. The Army has lone 1 duty, ‘defend of the country’. Therefore, looking astatine caste and religion successful the service is simply a ‘low mentality’. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has laid peculiar accent connected women empowerment successful the service arsenic well. Everyone should spot him."

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