New Delhi. A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP on Monday wrote a letter to party president JP Nadda to field Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from the Mathura assembly seat in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. requested. Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh, Harnath Singh Yadav, in a letter to Nadda on January 3, said that if the party contests Yogi Adityanath from Mathura, it will make the entire state and the people of the country happy.
Yadav also mentioned that the Chief Minister himself has announced that he will contest from where the party tells him. Yadav wrote in the letter, “Though the voters in every assembly constituency of the state will wish that Yogi Adityanath should contest from his assembly seat, but I request you in very humble words that the people of Braj region have a special desire that He should contest from Mathura, the city of Lord Krishna.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Harnath Singh Yadav writes to party chief JP Nadda requesting him to consider fielding Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath from Mathura in the upcoming assembly elections pic.twitter.com/AUQvCBzMT0
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He said, “Lord Sri Krishna himself has inspired me to write this letter. It is a humble request to you, keeping in mind the sentiments of the people of Braj region, consider declaring the Chief Minister of the state Yogi Adityanath as a candidate from the city of the entire Kaladhari Lord Shri Krishna. It is noteworthy that Yogi Adityanath had said on Sunday that he is ready to contest the upcoming assembly elections and from where he will contest, it will be decided by the top BJP leadership. Presently Yogi is a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. Shrikant Sharma, Energy Minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, is currently an MLA from Mathura.
For the past few months, BJP leaders have been continuously raising the issue of Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi dispute in Mathura. Harnath Singh Yadav himself had taken up the matter in the last winter session of Parliament and demanded the abolition of the Central Government’s Places of Worship Act, 1991, terming it as illogical and unconstitutional. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Yadav of BJP had said that this law creates discrimination between Lord Ram and Lord Krishna. Earlier, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya had said that the construction of grand temples in Ayodhya and Kashi is going on and preparations are being made for the construction of temples in Mathura.