Om Prakash Rajbhar, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Uttar Pradesh and a minister in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet, slammed the state government’s recent decision to rename a number of cities. Rajbhar reportedly said that the renaming was done to distract people from important issues.
Rajbhar told the ANI, “BJP changed the names of Mughalsarai and Faizabad. They say they were named after the Mughals. They have a National Spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, UP Minister Mohsin Raza — three Muslim faces of BJP, change their names first.”
BJP changed the names of Mughalsarai & Faizabad. They say they were named after the Mughals. They have a National Spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, UP Minister Mohsin Raza – 3 Muslim faces of BJP, change their names first: UP Minister OP Rajbhar pic.twitter.com/9QwkPrmeL2
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) November 10, 2018
He added, “This is all a drama to distract the backward and oppressed whenever they raise their voices to demand their rights. No one else has given the things which Muslims gave. Should we throw away GT Road? Who built the Red Fort? Who built the Taj Mahal?”
This is all a drama to distract the backward & oppressed whenever they raise their voices to demand their rights. No one else has given the things which Muslims gave. Should we throw away GT Road? Who built the Red Fort? Who built the Taj Mahal?: UP Minister OP Rajbhar pic.twitter.com/GFuGVjgF3g
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) November 10, 2018
Earlier on Saturday, another UP MLA, Jagan Prasad Garg had called for Agra to be renamed as Agravan or Agrawal.
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