Inspired By Lord Krishna, BJP MP Seeks CM Yogi’s Candidature From Mathura

TPI Staff January 3, 2022

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Mumbai: BJP MP Harnath Singh Yadav has requested party president JP Nadda to declare CM Yogi Adityanath’s candidature from Mathura constituency for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

In his letter to Nadda, Yadav said that he was inspired by Lord Krishna to demand the declaration of the incumbent Chief Minister from Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi as the party’s candidate.

Yogi Adityanath has confirmed that he will contest the upcoming UP elections in 2022 but has left the decision on the assembly seat to the party leadership.

“I will fight the election from wherever the party says,” Adityanath said on January 1 when asked whether he will contest the UP elections 2022 from Ayodhya, Mathura, or from his bastion Gorakhpur.

“Whatever was said, was done. There is no work left for which there should be any regret,” he told the media persons when asked to comment on his five-year tenure as Uttar Pradesh chief minister.

In December 2021, Mathura was in the news when the All India Hindu Mahasabha sought permission to install an idol of Lord Krishna at the deity’s “real birthplace”, which it claimed was inside the royal Idgah mosque.

Following the demand of Hindu Mahasabha, the UP government had increased security near Katra Keshav Dev Temple and Shahi Idgah.

Meanwhile, BJP MP from Mathura Hema Malini had also said that she wants a grand temple of Lord Krishna constructed in the holy city along the lines of Ayodhya and Kashi Vishwanath.