Days before the Lok Sabha elections voting, Bharatiya Janata Party (MP) Mahesh Sharma sparked a controversy by saying that those who don’t consider Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath as “their own” are “traitors”.
“Those who do not consider Modi and Yogi as their own, will not consider even their father as their own. If anyone says he is your own more than Modi-Yogi, then he is a traitor to this country. The person does not want the welfare of the country or the state,” Sharma said during an election rally in Bulandshahr.
Some reports stated that the remarks appeared to have been aimed at a particular community in western Uttar Pradesh. A video of the speech was initially shared by a news agency on April 12, but was widely circulated on social media platforms on Wednesday.
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Posting the video on X, Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas BV urged the Election Commission to take action.
“Dear Election Commission, the time has come to decide who are you with? If you are unbiased then take action, otherwise as per Mahesh Sharma you are with Modi,” the Congress leader said.
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