Yogi Adityanath :"Secular word is the biggest lie"

Lucknow Nov 14: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has once made some controversial comments and said that "'secular' word was the 'biggest lie' that has been told since Independence, and has damaged the country."


UP CM had made the above remarks while replying to a question asked on Communalism and secularism. He said that "I believe that the word secular is the biggest lie since Independence. Those that have given birth to this lie and those that use it should apologise to the people and this country."



" No system can be secular. Political system can be sect-neutral. If someone were to say that government has to be run by one way of prayer, that is not possible. In UP, I have to look at 22 crore people and I am answerable for their security and their feelings. But I am not sitting here to ruin one community either. You can be sect-neutral but not secular." he added

Earlier he has also said that "distorting history is no less a crime that sedition" and he tore apart congress and said that "the Congress played with the core emotions of this country. For its own selfish aims, it divided the country on the lines of caste, region, language. There is terrorism somewhere, Naxalism somewhere, separatism somewhere. We are still paying the price… for us, the entire country is one complete family".