Yogi Adityanath: Bait and switch as Hindutva takes over Vikas in BJP agenda

The militant Yogi has built his political career out of spewing venom against Muslims

Sometime in the year 2015, a video surfaced on social media where the Hindutva hardliner and BJP leader Adityanath – who is also the caretaker of the famous Gorakhnath Mutt in Gorakhpur – sat silently on stage as a supporter gave a call to dig up the graves of Muslim women and rape them. While this dastardly call was widely criticised, the speaker, a member of the Hindu Yuva Vahini – a militant Hindutva organisation founded by Adityanath – declared that when the Yogi came to power, Muslims would be stripped of the right to vote and treated as “second-class