Adityanath's warning to Owaisi, 'followers of abba jaan': Don't try to inflame passions over CAA
Lucknow/Kanpur, Nov 23: Uttar Padesh chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday again used the term abba jaan as a jibe, threatening strict action against those who incite passion over the Citizenship Amendment act.
His main target was AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi who recently demanded the withdrawal of the law, but the CM's remark could be interpreted by many as a reference to the Muslim community in general.
He called the Hyderabad-based leader, whose party is contesting the coming UP Assembly elections, an agent of the Samajwadi Party.
The chief minister had sparked a row in September by using the Urdu term for 'father', saying that rations distributed by the previous state government went to those who say abba jaan .
In Kanpur on Tuesday, Adityanath said there used to be riots every third or fourth day in Uttar Pradesh earlier. I would like to warn the person who is once again is trying to incite feelings in the name of CAA.
"I am asking followers of 'chacha jaan' (uncle) and 'abba jaan' to listen carefully that if attempts are made to vitiate the atmosphere of the state by inciting feelings, the state government will deal with it strictly," the chief minister said.
Adityanath was addressing a convention of polling booth-level BJP leaders, also attended by party president J P Nadda.
"Everyone knows that Owaisi is inciting feelings as an agent of the SP. But now UP is not known for riots but as a riot-free state, he said.
The CM said the government works for development and does not patronise mafias. It is a government that runs bulldozers on the chests of the mafias, he said in a reference to the demolition of property owned by criminals.
While addressing a meeting in Barabanki on Sunday, Owaisi had demanded that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) should be withdrawn as well after the announcement on the repeal of the agri laws.
The CAA is against the Constitution. If the BJP government does not take back this law, we will come out on the streets and another Shaheen Bagh will come up here, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader had said.
A long protest was staged in Shaheen Bagh locality in the national capital against the CAA last year.
The CAA is aimed at providing Indian citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who entered the country on or before 31 December 2014.
Adityanath said besides the Centre and the state government, only BJP workers were on the street to help people during the Covid pandemic. He thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for launching schemes to provide foodgrain to people.
Referring to the Kanpur region, he said its social fabric was damaged and development affected due to the politics of family ( pariwarwad') and caste ( jatiwad') since Independence.
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Real Madrid fines Valverde and Tchouaméni half a million euros each for altercation
Barcelona (AP): Real Madrid slapped players Federico Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni with half-a-million-euro ($588,000) fines on Friday for their altercation during practice.
The massive fines came a day after the midfielders tussled when the team trained. Valverde said in a post on social media on Thursday that no punches were thrown. But Valverde knocked his head on a table and he suffered a small cut that required a brief hospital visit.
On social media, Valverde initially called it a “meaningless fight” with a teammate and said “everything has been blown out of proportion."
His employers, however, considered it a significant enough breach of team discipline to nail both Valverde and Tchouaméni with fines that bite even the bank account of a top soccer player. The half-a-million euro penalties reflect the reputational damage the club was enduring in a chaotic end to a disappointing season.
In a statement, the 15-time European champion said its disciplinary action was concluded after both players expressed to the club “their complete remorse for what happened and apologized to one another.”
Madrid added they also apologized to their teammates, the coaching staff and club supporters, as well as showing their willingness to accept whatever disciplinary action the club deemed “opportune.”
Tchouaméni was back training with Madrid on Friday, two days before they play at Barcelona in a clasico. Madrid has to win otherwise Barcelona will be crowned La Liga champion.
After being notified of the fine, he posted a public apology to the club and its fans on social media.
“What happened this week in training is unacceptable,” Tchouaméni wrote. "I say this while thinking about the example we are expected to set for young people, whether in football or at school.
“Above all, I am sorry for the image we projected of the club.”
Valverde was not at practice due to the head knock.
Both players are set to play in the World Cup next month, with Tchouaméni playing for France and Valverde for Uruguay.
Chaotic end to a poor season
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The run-in between the players, who for seasons have played side by side in Madrid's midfield, came after they argued this week in previous training sessions. But tempers boiled over on Thursday. Spanish media was rife with reports that the players previously disagreed over the club's decision to let coach Xabi Alonso go after just months on the job.
It was not the only altercation involving Madrid players during training this week. Álvaro Carreras confirmed he was in a “minor” incident with a teammate. Spanish media said he and fellow defender Antonio Rüdiger got into a scuffle.
Álvaro Arbeloa, the coach who was promoted from Madrid's reserve team when Alonso was fired in January, will face tough questions on what went wrong inside the changing room when he gives a press conference on Saturday ahead of the clasico at Camp Nou.
Madrid is facing a second consecutive campaign without a major trophy amid rumors in the Spanish media that club president Florentino Pérez is considering bringing back Jose Mourinho to straighten out his underperforming team.
