“I am not accusing Akhilesh Yadav of engineering the riots. I am accusing Akhilesh Yadav of sleeping when the riots were happening,” he said when asked whether the UP Chief Minister had failed to fulfill his “raj dharma” like Modi during the 2002 riots in Gujarat.
Elaborating on his angst against Yadav, Ramesh said, “He is the government. He is the Chief Minister. Nobody from his government goes to Muzaffarnagar. No words of solace, no words of comfort, no acts of comfort.”
Alleging that Yadav “allowed his senior ministers to make all sorts of offensive and obnoxious statements,” the Union Minister said, “I think Akhilesh Yadav has simply lost it.”
