"How Did Son Of PM Modi's No. 2 Enter Cricket?": Akhilesh Yadav To NDTV
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Akhilesh Yadav said the BJP forgets about the family ties of its own party.
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP's biggest censures of Akhilesh Yadav in these elections - of making a career out of sheer nepotism - was flipped by the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister as he said the ruling party always overlooked its instances of 'family first'.
"I heard the speech he gave in Balia. He spoke about family and nepotism 15 times in his speech. And in the whole day, he must have spoken at least 25 times about extreme nepotism. I want to ask him that just because nobody is talking about his family, does not mean he's not family-oriented," Mr Yadav, 48, told NDTV in an interview.
"How has the son of his second-in-command entered the world of cricket? Yogi Adityanath, the current Chief Minister, if his uncle wasn't in the [Gorakhpur] mutt, perhaps our Chief Minister wouldn't have been heading the mutt either," he said, taking a shot at Union Home Minister Amit Shah's son Jay Shah, the Honorary Secretary of India's powerful cricket board BCCI.
"When the Prime Minister was giving his speech on families and nepotism in Balia, did he not see the former MP from here standing next to him? Is he going to forget about Jyotiraditya Scindia? Two of his aunts are in the BJP. Whose son is he? His two 'buas' are in the BJP. Whose son is he? Whose son is the Chief Minister of Karnataka? If he doesn't have a family, what can I do?" Mr Yadav added.