'Buffaloes, Bulls Or Women', Everyone Is Safe In Today's Uttar Pradesh, Says CM Yogi Adityanath

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, campaigning for state assembly polls, equated women's safety to that of buffaloes and bulls, and said that everyone is safe in today's Uttar Pradesh.

"Whenever our workers stayed anywhere, women of the family asked, will we ever feel safe? Earlier our daughters, sisters felt unsafe. Even if a bullock card went through western UP, buffaloes and bulls didn't feel safe," Yogi said at a workshop of party spokespersons at the state BJP headquarters in Lucknow on Monday.

#WATCH | "...Earlier our daughters, sisters felt unsafe. Potholes on roads symbolized UP. Even buffaloes, bulls didn't feel safe. These problems persisted in Western UP, not eastern UP...But it's not the same today. Can you not see the difference...," says CM Yogi Adityanath pic.twitter.com/sytpciJVab

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"These problems were seen in Western UP, not eastern UP. But it is not the same today. Can you not see the difference? Today, buffalos, bulls or women... can they be picked up forcibly? Isn't this a difference? What was Uttar Pradesh's identity? Wherever potholes started, that was UP; wherever there was darkness, that was UP. Any civilised person feared walking on the streets at night. But not today," Yogi Adityanath said.

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He made these remarks after saying that daughters, sisters, buffalos and bulls were unsafe in Uttar Pradesh before he came to power.

Earlier, Yogi drew flak over his "abba jaan" dig at the previous Samajwadi Party government.

He said earlier, only "people who say abba jaan (Urdu for father)" were allowed to consume state-subsidised food before 2017.

"Because then, people who say 'abba jaan' used to digest the rations. The rations of Kushinagar used to go to Nepal and Bangladesh. Today, if anybody tries to consume the rations meant for poor people, he will land in jail," the Chief Minister said at an event in Kushinagar on Sunday.