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When Samajwadi Party Man Was Caught On Video Saying Brahmins Would Be Thrown Out Of UP, Only Yadavs And Muslims Would Stay
Swarajya Staff
Jul 10, 2020, 10:39 PM | Updated 10:38 PM IST
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Soon after the encounter of notorious gangster Vikas Dubey, some politicians attempted to rake up a controversy or draw caste-based fault-lines.
If Congress leader Udit Raj questioned whether Dubey would have met the same fate had he been a Thakur, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying “innocent“ men are being killed in encounters in Uttar Pradesh.
However, even as the Samajwadi Party is attempting to take a moral high ground over the issue, an old statement of one of its party men from Bijnor went viral on social media. The leader is heading saying in a video that only Muslims and Yadavs would live in Uttar Pradesh and Brahmins would be driven out the way they were driven out of Kashmir.
As per a Patrika report in 2016, a man named Rajiv Kumar Yadav, whose visiting card said he was a Samajwadi Party leader, said that only Muslims and Yadavs would reside in Uttar Pradesh and everyone else would be driven out like Kashmiri Pandits were from the Kashmir valley.
Here is a video of the man that went viral at that time:
"Is sarkaar ki priority hai Yadav plus Muslim varg (this government priorities Yadav and Muslim community)", says Yadav.
In the video, a government official can be heard confronting the SP leader after being accused of corruption.
The official says, "Hum Hindu-Brahmin kahan jayen? (where will be Hindus-Brahmins go?)".
Yadav replies, "Aap log ghooskohri karo (you keep indulging in corruption)".
Yadav further says, "Ye Yadav aur Musalmon ka desh hai...aap jaiye Modi ke desh mein Ahmedabad...Brahmin imandaar hai hi nain (this state belongs to Yadavs and Muslims...you go to Modi's desh Ahmedabad...Brahmins are just not honest)".
The official says, "Kashmir churwa dia humse, UP churwaoge aap? (You would make us leave Uttar Pradesh like Kashmir?).
Yadav replies, "Haan churwa denge (Yes we will).”
The video has resurfaced on the social media in the wake of casteist accusations against Yogi by Congress and SP leaders. A congress leader has even launched an outfit for Brahmins, saying that Brahmins are suffering under Yogi rule.
Brahmins will be thrown out of UP like Kashmiri Pandits: Samajwadi Party leaderhttps://t.co/7D9xo8QziN
— Dr Shobha (@DrShobha) August 10, 2016
Brahmins will be thrown out of UP like Kashmiri Pandits: Samajwadi Party @MahasabhaAkhil @ABHMGuj https://t.co/7gkBqPacxD #vikasDubeyEncounter
— Hindu Mahasabha-K'taka (@HMSKTK) July 10, 2020
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