New Delhi: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday has accused SP leader Akhilesh Yadav of insulting Lord Buddha by allegedly not accepting his bust during an election rally in Uttar Pradesh.

Sharing a video of Yadav purportedly not receiving the bust being given to him, Rijiju said that he did not receive it deliberately during his rally at Kaushambhi a few days ago.

Kaushambhi is a major pilgrimage site for Buddhists.

Following this, several BJP leaders have accused SP president of insulting religious sentiments.

“I knew that Akhilesh Yadav was never serious about the sentiments of Dalits, but this open insult of Lord Buddha is an insult of India’s ethos,” the Union minister tweeted in Hindi.

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New Delhi: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav hit back at PM Narendra Modi’s ‘terrorists choosing cycles” comment at an election rally in Uttar Pradesh and said that ‘Cycle is the symbol of poor India’.

#MyCycleTwitter was one of the top trends in Twitter, as many people including opposition party leaders posted pictures with cycle.

Prime Minister Modi had said at a rally on Sunday, “All the blasts that took place were carried out on a bicycle and I wonder why they (terrorists) preferred bicycles, in 2006 there was a bomb blast in Kashi, there was a blast in Sankat Mochan temple, there was an attack on Cantt railway station and then there was a Samajwadi Party government in UP.”

Referring to the court’s verdict in the Ahmedabad blasts, Prime Minister Modi said, “Just two days ago, the perpetrators of the Ahmedabad bomb blast have been sentenced and many terrorists have been sentenced to death. Today, I am referring to this in particular because some political parties have been kind to such terrorists and these political parties have been lenient in the interest of vote banks for terrorism.”

Prime Minister Modi said that when the SP came to power in 2012, it had decided to withdraw the bomb blasts case against terrorists, if you give a chance to such people, they will do their own crimes.

In UP, 172 seats have gone to polls in three phases. Polling for the fourth phase will now be held on February 23.

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