Lucknow: After BJP's repeated jibes at Rahul
Gandhi over his visits to temples in poll-bound Gujarat, Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath shot a barb at the
Congress vice president, saying he does not even know how to
sit in a temple.
"I am saddened and amused at the same time when he (Rahul
Gandhi) goes to a temple...The poor fellow does not even know
how to sit in a temple," he said.
The priest-politician claimed when Gandhi visited Kashi
Vishwanath temple in Varanasi recently, he sat in a posture
as if he were to offer Namaaz.
"The priest then told him it is a temple and not a
mosque. If you have to sit in a temple, sit in the 'paalthi'
(cross-legged) posture," Adityanath said at an event
yesterday.
Adityanath said Rahul Gandhi was wandering "bhatak raha
hai" from one temple to another in Gujarat, and he was happy
that the Congress leader's mind will get "purified" in the
process.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister said he was saddened
that the erstwhile Congress government, of which his mother
Sonia Gandhi was the "super PM" had sworn an affidavit in the
Supreme Court saying that Lord Ram and Lord Krishna were
"kalpanik" (imaginary characters).
"If they were imaginary, what is Rahul Gandhi doing by
visiting temples?" he asked.
When asked about the imminent elevation of Rahul Gandhi
as Congress president, Adityanath took another dig at him,
saying it would help fulfil Mahatma Gandhi's dream of a
"Congress free" India.
