No riots in UP during Ram Navami, says Yogi Adityanath

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Lucknow, April 13

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said there is no place for riots in Uttar Pradesh, stressing that Ram Navami celebrations that coincided with Ramzan went off without any incident of violence — not even an altercation or “tu-tu, main-main”.

His remark comes against the backdrop of ases of communal violence in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Gujarat. Adityanath said the situation during Ram Navami reflected the “new thinking” in UP. He pointed out that Ram Navami processions were taken out at 800 places in the state.

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“There is no place for ‘danga-phasad’ (rioting),” he said. In the run-up to the Assembly polls that brought Adityanath to power for a second consecutive term, law and order was projected as one of the key agendas of the BJP. Adityanath has repeatedly claimed that while communal clashes were a common feature in Uttar Pradesh in the past, no riot had taken place in the state after the Bharatiya Janata Party assumed power in 2017. —

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