OPINION | UP: Yogi two steps ahead of Akhilesh

On Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (Aug 14), UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath led his ministers and party colleagues in a silent procession in Lucknow. It was to commemorate the death and displacement of lakhs of Hindus and Sikhs during 1947 Partition. Yogi said, Hindus and Sikhs were killed in lakhs by rioters, but Congress leaders, in their lust for power, remained silent. Yogi said, the basic character of Congress has not changed.