Uttar Pradesh polls: CM Yogi Adityanath using ‘undignified’ words against opposition, Samajwadi Party tells EC

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party on Thursday lodged a written complaint with the Election Commission of India against chief minister Yogi Adityanath, accusing him of addressing opposition leaders with words which are inappropriate to match his constitutional post.
The party has asked EC to immediately ban such language which, the complaint letter said, cannot be justified.
The complaint talks of ‘CM’s recent threat’ of deploying bulldozers after March 10 and his repeated targeting of SP leadership, calling them ‘gunde, mawali, mafia’.The letter cited CM’s address at Siwalkhas and Mithore in Meerut on February 1 where he said: “Lal topi matlab dangai, history-sheeter” (red caps worn by SP leaders and workers symbolises rioters and history-sheeters).
“Just look at the language that our CM is using. It shows the desperation and frustration creeping into senior leaders of the BJP, probably because they have already sensed defeat. If the BJP leaders are using such objectionable language to provoke a similar response from the SP cadres then, let me be very clear, it is not going to work,” SP national general secretary Rajendra Chaudhary told TOI.
The letter, signed by Rajendra Chaudhary, also mentions CM’s address at Kairana in Muzaffarnagar where he said: “Jo garmi dikhai de rahi hai ye sab shaant ho jayegi (All the over-enthusiasm will end)” and “Garmi kaise shaant hoti hai ye main jaanta hoon (I know how to handle those who are flying high). The UP CM has been lashing out at the SP in his campaigns — drawing parallels between SP workers and rioters, gangsters and goons — saying that bulldozers will be used against such outlaws.
Such violations of the Model Code by the ruling party can adversely impact free, fair and unbiased elections in the state, the letter said. “In order to conduct free and fair elections, the Samajwadi Party demands that directions be issued to the Chief Minister to use language befitting the dignity of his post and in compliance with the Model Code,” it said.