Yogi failed to manage Covid-19: AAP

Noida: Ahead of the state assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday hit out at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath alleging mismanagement by him during the Covid-19 pandemic.

AAP's Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh slammed Adityanath for his "indecent" remarks against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, equating his expressions with those of a "chauraha chhap neta".

While dubbing Adityanath's remarks as those of a "chauraha chhap neta", Singh, also the in-charge of his party's affairs in UP, asserted that his own remarks were "befitting" a chief minister who utters words like "garmi nikaal denge" and "thok denge".

The attack came a day after Adityanath and Kejriwal got engaged in an online fight trading barbs over the "mismanagement" by their governments during the pandemic.

"His (Adityanath's) language against a popular and elected Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal -- he said 'Suno Kejriwal' -- this kind of indecent language for an elected chief minister reflects that Adityanath ji might have unfortunately become the CM of UP but he speaks like a 'chauraha chhap neta'," Singh said.

"He is talking about Covid-19 mismanagement but I am saying if there is any live example of the mismanagement, it is Adityanath. We have seen decomposed dead bodies along river banks in Prayagraj, Kanpur, Ballia and Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh with birds and animals nibbling on them. People have not forgotten those images," Singh told reporters in Noida.

He also shared pictures of helpless people during the first and second waves of the pandemic, dead bodies along river banks in UP to substantiate his claims.