Mughals, Britishers responsible for weakening Indian economy: Yogi Adityanath
Mumbai: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday blamed Mughals and Britishers for weakening Indian economy. He said that India used to be the biggest financial power in the world before the arrival of Mughals and by the time Britishers left the country, it was a mere shadow of its glorious self.
While speaking at the World Hindu Economy Forum in Mumbai, Yogi Adityanath explained that before the Mughals attacked India, the country used to be the biggest economic power in the world. India held over one-third share of the world's economy by the time Mughals arrived in India.
"India was the largest stakeholder in the world economy with over 36 per cent share during Mughal era and by the time they left and Britishers came, India's share got reduced to 20 per cent," claimed the Uttar Pradesh CM.
He then stressed that during their 200-year rule in the country, Britishers weakened the Indian economy and took it down to just four per cent by the time they left.
Earlier in the month, Yogi Adityanath had asserted that he will make Uttar Pradesh alone a $1 trillion economy in the coming years.
"We have ministers and bureaucrats who have vision. An interactive session will take place where we will chalk out a roadmap to ensure that benefits of development schemes reach to every individual of the state. Our aim is to make UP a $1 trillion economy," he had said.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
