"80 aur 20 bolne wale Yogi nahi ho sakte": Akhilesh hits back at UP CM
Mar 17, 2025
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 17 : Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday countered Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's "80:20" remarks and said that who speaks like this, can never be a Yogi.
"80 aur 20 bolne wale Yogi nahi ho sakte (Those who speak of 80 and 20 cannot be Yogis)," Akhilesh said while speaking to the media.
"A yogi is not defined by their attire, but by their thoughts. What we have learned is that a yogi is someone who understands the suffering of others, who lives in the material world but is detached from it, who does not get angry, and does not spread hatred," Akhilesh said.
On March 8, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath predicted a landslide victory for the BJP in the next State Assembly elections.
Speaking at the India Today Conclave, CM Yogi said that the 2027 election would be an 80:20 battle in which the BJP and its allies will win 80 per cent while 20 per cent will include everything else.
Meanwhile, Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party, stating that the party was causing double confusion and making double blunders.
Speaking to the media, the SP chief further said that unemployment had surrounded Bundelkhand and the entire state.
"BJP, which calls itself a double-engine government, is running in double confusion and doing double blunders... Unemployment has surrounded Bundelkhand and entire Uttar Pradesh.." Yadav said, speaking to the media.
He further stated that the poor are unable to get treatment and inflation is on the rise due to the BJP.
"Poor are not able to get treatment and inflation is on the rise... BJP is coloured in only one colour, and this cannot be accepted by people..." he said.
Speaking on the Bundelkhand Expressway, he said that it was one of the biggest money-making expressways but was not even maintained by the government after the inauguration.
"The Bundelkhand Expressway is the biggest money-making expressway for this area, but the way it should have been built and maintained after the inauguration is no longer visible... The people who built the highway seem to have forgotten it..." he said.
