NEW DELHI : Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, the lone Muslim minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government, today defended the BJP’s choice of controversial leader Yogi Adityanath as the next UP chief minister, saying he will work for the party’s “inclusive growth” agenda.
Minister of State for Minority Affairs Naqvi said that Adityanath will prove his critics wrong by his developmental work and will emerge as the best chief minister.
“I congratulate him. He has been in public life for a long time. He will realise the Prime Minister’s commitment of inclusive growth in Uttar Pradesh. Definitely he will prove best chief minister of the State,” Naqvi told reporters.
Rejecting apprehensions of Adityanath being a hardline Hindutva leader, Naqvi said he was a “hardline leader of inclusive development”.
Naqvi said Adityanath will prove all political pundits and analysts who have concerns regarding him “wrong”.
“I know him personally for last 20 years. He takes everyone along. He will definitely prove all wrong,” the minister said. (AGENCIES)
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