Mahant of Gorakhnath Peeth and BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has claimed that the main problem of the country was not hunger or poverty but “jihadi” politics.
Speaking at a Maha Hindu Sammelan organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal at Rohtak on Monday, Mr. Adityanath claimed that Muslim-dominated areas remained “sensitive for the country’s security.”
In Mewat district of Haryana — the only Muslim-dominated district in the State — he said “when India wins a cricket match, people mourn it. The country’s problem is not hunger or poverty but this politics of jihadi ‘junoon’.”
Mr. Adityanath said a similar situation existed in eastern Uttar Pradesh till some years ago. “The situation had deteriorated but we rectified it there, you do it here,” he said.
