Twitter spat between Yogi, Kejriwal over PM’s Parliament speech

New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath have been sparring on Twitter over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement made in the Lok Sabha on migrant exodus during the Covid-induced lockdown in 2020.

Modi in his speech had said accused the opposition of “inciting” migrants to flee Delhi and Mumbai during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Terming the PM’s statement a blatant lie, Kejriwal in a tweet stated, “This statement by the Prime Minister is completely false. The country hopes that the Prime Minister will be sensitive to those who have suffered the pain of the Corona period, those who have lost their loved ones. It does not suit the Prime Minister to do politics on the sufferings of the people.”

Condemning Kejriwal’s tweet, Yogi Adityanath demanded that the Delhi CM apologize to the entire nation. “Today’s statement of Arvind Kejriwal about the respected Prime Minister is highly condemnable. Arvind Kejriwal should apologize to the entire nation,” he tweeted, quoting a couplet from Goswami Tulsidas, the author of “Ramcharitmanas”, to elucidate his point.

“Listen Kejriwal, When the whole country was battling a global pandemic like Corona you forced the workers of UP to leave Delhi,” he tweeted while accusing Kejriwal of cutting the electricity and water of migrant labourers in order to force them to leave the national capital.

“The electricity-water connection was cut and the sleeping people were picked up and sent to the UP border by buses. Announcement was made that in Anand Vihar, buses will be available for UP-Bihar. The UP government arranged buses for the migrant laborers and brought them back safely,” tweeted Adityanath

Hitting back at Adityanath, Kejriwal tweeted “Listen Yogi, You just let it be. Just like the dead bodies of the people of UP were flowing in the river and you were giving advertisements of your false applause in Times magazine by spending crores of rupees. I have never seen such a harsh and cruel ruler like you.”