Bhopal, November 24: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday, speaking at a rally in Madhya Pradesh, took a jibe at the recent video showing Congress leader Kamal Nath allegedly asking Muslims to vote in large numbers in the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018. In a veiled attack, Yogi Adityanath said at the rally that Kamal Nath ji aap ko yeh Ali mubarak, hamare liye Bajrangbali paryaapt honge.(Kamal Nath can keep Ali as we are complete with Bajrang Bali). Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2018: Kamal Nath's Video on Muslim Appeasement Goes Viral.

The Uttar Pradesh CM said that he read somewhere about Kamal Nath's comment on Congress not needing SC/ST votes, and that it needed only the votes of Muslims. He then went ahead with his Ali, Bajrang Bali comment. Check the ANI tweet below:

Yogi Adityanath addressed five rallies in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. The Uttar Pradesh CM addressed rallies in Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Indore and Ujjain districts. Earlier on Saturday, minister in Yogi Adityanath government in UP, O P Rajbhar, said that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is interested only in election campaigning when section 144 is imposed in Shree Ayodhya, (earlier Faizabad). The Yogi minister also backed Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav's demand for deploying Army in Ayodhya, looking at the tense situation in the wake of Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray's visit and the Dharm Sansad in UP demanding construction of Ram temple.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Nov 24, 2018 06:00 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).