Lucknow, Nov 9: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said a person "is not a yogi by what he wears but what he speaks".
The dig, apparently aimed at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was made on the birthday of 'Khajanchi,' a boy born to a woman standing in a queue to exchange banknotes after demonetisation. The boy was named so by Yadav.
"Countdown has started for those who do encounters. Their days in the seat of power are numbered," Yadav said at the programme.
Yadav, without naming anyone, said people with cunning tend to become bitter in speech.
"You can see that their language has changed, their way of thinking and understanding have also changed. They are so scared that they are considering the officers as their officials, but the officials and the government people probably do not know that the public is no longer with them. The public is against the BJP. When the public is against them, what will the officials do?" he said.
On the upcoming bypolls, the SP chief said his party will have a strategy to counter every move of the BJP, which has "no credibility left."
"A person who does not consider anyone to be bigger than him, what kind of a yogi is he? If there is anybody who is setting the seers against each other, it's the people in the government," the former UP chief minister said, apparently targeting Adityanath.
"It is said that the greater a saint is, the less he speaks, and when he speaks, it is for public welfare. Here, everything is the opposite. The kind of language which is being used... A person is not a yogi by what he wears, but by what he speaks," he said.
Yadav said the older 'Khajanchi,' gets, the more he will remind people of the failure of demonetisation.
"And the truth is, demonetisation emerged as the biggest corruption in economic history of the world. Demonetisation has proved to be the ocean of BJP's corruption. It was a cosmetic exercise, and it has remained so," he said.
Yadav likened the impact of demonetisation to that of a "slow poison" which afflicted farmers, labourers, the middle and salaried class, small traders and street vendors.
"Demonetisation will become the reason for 'votebandi' for the BJP. Demonetisation brought recession and shut down many businesses and factories. Now this will lock down BJP's power," he said.
Yadav also derided BJP's 'Amrit Kaal' catchphrase to say that the party's tenure at the Centre has only brought the country ruin.
"There has been a tradition of sages here. But today those who should be soft-spoken have become verbose and harsh-spoken. Those who should speak the truth have become false preachers. Those who should dispel fearlessness are spreading fear. Those who should do charity have become tyrants.
"Those whose job should be to run the government are running bulldozers. The government should be a symbol of development but has become a symbol of destruction," he said.
"So many women or daughters had never come to the Chief Minister's residence to commit suicide as much they have come under this government," he added.
He also hit out at the state government over the wait for fertilisers for farmers and termed the BJP, which governs the state, drunk on power.
"It is working against the Constitution and democracy. Bulldozer cannot be a symbol of justice but this government is running bulldozers in the arrogance of power," he said.
"The BJP government is not running on 'Samvidhan' (Constitution) but on 'Manvidhan' (arbitrary rule)," Yadav added.
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New Delhi, Nov 12: The Delhi High Court has ordered cancellation of a lookout circular (LOC) issued against Ashneer Grover, the former MD of payment app BharatPe, and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover, noting that the FIR lodged against them over allegations of cheating and forgery has already been quashed.
Justice Sanjeev Narula passed the order on Monday after the court was informed that another bench of the high court quashed the FIR on the same day.
The FIR was quashed by Justice Chandra Dhari Singh after considering a plea moved by the Grovers stating that they have arrived at a settlement with the fintech company.
In his order, Justice Narula said, "Although the copy of the order (quashing the FIR) is not available as of now, the aforenoted fact is not disputed by the counsel for the parties.
"In light of the fact that the underlying FIR has been quashed, the LOC issued by respondent No. 3 (Bureau of Immigration), in the opinion of the court, will not survive."
The LOC was issued by the Bureau of Immigration at the instance of Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in view of the investigation against the Grovers in the cheating and forgery FIR.
The court was hearing a plea moved by Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover seeking quashing of the LOC issued against them in connection with the investigation into the cheating and forgery case.
"Accordingly, the present petitions are disposed of with a direction to the respondents to cancel the LOC against the petitioners in their records," the court noted.
Earlier, the Grovers claimed that they were informed about the LOC for the first time when they were detained at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on November 16, 2023, while they were scheduled to travel to the US.
After being detained, they were informed that the LOC was operational from November 6, 2023.
In May last year, the EOW filed an FIR against Grover, his wife Madhuri, and others under eight sections of the Indian Penal Code, including 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating and dishonesty), 467 and 468 (forgery), and 471 (using forged documents as genuine) for an alleged Rs 81 crore fraud after a complaint was lodged by BhartPe, the fintech unicorn.
In its complaint, BharatPe alleged that Grover and his family caused damages to the tune of Rs 81.3 crore through illegitimate payments to bogus human resource consultants, inflated and undue payments through pass-through vendors connected to the accused, sham transactions in input tax credit and payment of penalty to GST authorities, illegal payment to travel agencies, forged invoices by Madhuri, and destruction of evidence.
Madhuri was the head of controls at BharatPe before she was fired in 2022 after a forensic audit revealed several irregularities.
Subsequently, Grover resigned as the chief executive officer of the fintech firm in March 2022.