Samajwadi Party (SP) Lok Sabha member from Sambhal Shafiqur Rahman Barq on October 10 termed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as an ‘astrologer’ for his comment that if the Ram Janmabhoomi site can be reclaimed after 500 years, “the Sindhu [Indus] can also be brought back.”
Mr. Barq added that what happened in the Babri Masjid episode is pure injustice and against the Constitution and law. “Adityanath is a Najumi [astrologer],he talks about big and small things. But as far as the Ram Janmbhoomi is concerned justice has not happened, injustice was done, against the Constitution and law. You may construct a Ram Temple, but history will not forgive,” said the five-term parliamentarian.
Earlier on Monday, the Pakistan Foreign Ministry condemned the U.P. CM’s statement and alleged it manifests a revisionist and expansionist mindset.