00:00And because there's also this election momentum, this is one of the issues that's been the biggest flashpoint when it
00:06came to Uttar Pradesh.
00:07And ahead of Akhilesh Yadav's visit to Ayodhya, here's what Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said.
00:30And now, 12 December, you're going to be able to come to Ayodhya.
01:00And you're going to be able to come to Ayodhya, which is the first time of Ayodhya, which was the
01:06first time of Ayodhya.
01:30And if you came to Ayodhya, you were going to be able to come to Ayodhya, which was the first
01:35time of Ayodhya, then if you come to Ayodhya, you're going to be able to come to Ayodhya.
01:55But also importantly, do you have an understanding why was he blaming the centre when it was all clear that
02:01it was Mulaim Singh Yadav's government then that had given the orders?
02:09Well, exactly, Pooja. We know that what Samajwadi Party earlier was trying to do because soft Hindutva was one of
02:16the things which Akhilesh Yadav wanted to take on after the PDA thing got successful in the Lok Sabha election
02:22results.
02:23But somewhere and somehow, after the announcement that Akhilesh Yadav will be visiting the Ayodhya Ram Temple on December 10,
02:29the statement from Samajwadi Party Baliyah MP Sanatran Pandey has made things worse for the Samajwadi Party.
02:34Because at one end, SP tried to answer the BJP on its own pitch of Sanatran and Hindutva.
02:39But now, with Akhilesh Yadav visiting Matakhi Chauki, attending Bhagwat Katha of its own leaders, now certainly a statement comes
02:49from Baliyah of Sanatran Pandey, which in a way justifies the firing on the Karshevaks and even says that anybody
02:56who would have been on that particular throne would have followed this constitutional duty.
03:01So that's what Sanatran Pandey has to say. And now BJP is flamboyant over this particular issue.
03:07Pankaj Chaudhary has obviously said that Sanatran Pandey has spoken what Samajwadi Party actually feels.
03:14And it's just the narrative of Akhilesh Yadav of visiting temples, of going to Matakhi Chauki and etc.
03:20And they just want their own vote bank to be there and also want the Hindutva vote bank in their
03:25favour.
03:25And that's why they want to play on the pitch of the BJP.
03:28So that's what the entire scenario is. And it's going to be worth seeing how further things roll up from
03:33here.
03:34Because Samajwadi Party, when we ask questions to the SP leaders about the statement of Sanatran Pandey,
03:39then they respond in a manner that BJP must also apologise to Lord Ram over the embezzlement of money in
03:48the temple, in the Ram temple, for which SIT was also constituted.
03:53So this is what the Samajwadi Party is taking over these particular recent developments.
03:57But one thing is very clear. If a party was trying to move on the soft Hindutva pitch, then Sanatran
04:03Pandey's statement is obviously not a good useful party.
04:05This is only going to clearly turn into a bigger flashpoint. Remember 12 December is when Akhilesh Yadav is set
04:10to head to Ayodhya.
04:12Two years since the temple construction, he's finally going to pay his prayers.
04:16And he says that he doesn't need a chief minister's permission.
04:19But the chief minister says, apologise first. Only then will you be able to enter.
04:24We'll be tracking all that and more.
