The SP chief also targeted Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on reaching Mathura.

Mathura:

Samajwadi Party (SP) national president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, blaming the state government for the incident at the Banke Bihari temple on Janmashtami night.

Yadav told reporters after visiting Rangji temple that the festival of Janmashtami was celebrated with pomp even in the Samajwadi Party (SP) government, but then such accidents did not happen.

He said that this accident happened during the BJP rule, so this government is responsible for it.

The SP chief also targeted Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on reaching Mathura on the day of Janmashtami.

"When the chief minister knows that Mathura is witnessing a large gathering of Krishna devotees from across the country, what was the need for him to stay there for several hours," he said.

He stayed there, that is why the police force which was to be deployed to handle the people, was kept for the security of the Chief Minister.

In such a situation, there was bound to be a shortage at the places of need.

That's when this accident happened in Banke Bihari temple.

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After the Banke Bihari temple accident, the former Chief Minister said on the discussion of building a corridor in Vrindavan on the same lines as the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi and said that the ancient form of Vrindavan should not be tampered with at all.

Yadav alleged, "The BJP-led government is destroying Braj instead of developing it.

Due to corruption, work is being done to benefit only a few people here. Is.

The BJP government has made innumerable people unemployed. "When the next election is held, the people should vote for us and remember the promises of the BJP, which they did not fulfill," the SP chief said.


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