New Delhi: Those “feeding off Bharat” should get their DNA tested, and they will find that their DNA is Bharatiya, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in Lucknow Wednesday, alluding to Indian Muslims at an event organised by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh mouthpieces Organizer and Panchjanya.
Without directly mentioning Muslims, Adityanath said they need to find new idols instead of idolising the likes of Aurangzeb in a conversation with Panchjanya editor Prafulla Ketkar and Organiser editor Hitesh Shankar.
Referring to a remark made by Indonesian Prime Minister Prabowo Subianto on his Republic Day visit to India in January this year, Adityanath said that even the PM of a Muslim country has said his DNA is Bharatiya.
“If those feeding off Bharat get their DNA tested, they will also find it to be Bharatiya,” he said. “Stop praising foreign invaders because when truths like Sambhal emerge, they will have nowhere to show their face,” Adityanath said, referring to Aurangzeb.
Last week, Abu Azmi, president of the Samajwadi Party’s Maharashtra state unit, stirred up a controversy when he said that during Aurangzeb’s reign, India’s border reached Afghanistan and Burma (Myanmar) and that the much-maligned Mughal king was not a “cruel administrator”, but one who “built many temples”. “Our GDP accounted for 24 percent (of the world GDP), and India was called a golden sparrow (during his regime),” said the MLA from the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar constituency in Mumbai.
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