Yogi Adityanath's ‘Abba Jaan’ causes political storm — here's how many times he has used it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExXbHZM0tkI Sep 17, 2021
Yogi Adityanath’s ‘Abba Jaan’ remark during a rally in Kushinagar sparked a political war ahead of the UP election. However, this is not the first time he used this term, earlier having allegedly used it to refer to Samajwadi Party leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav. ThePrint Unnati Sharma explains in what context and occasions the term has been used by the UP CM before.
Taking a swipe at the Muslims in UP, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday, "Before 2017, those saying the word Abba Jaan used to digest all ration."
The incident came hours after a UP government advertisement on the front page of a leading newspaper showed the picture of a Kolkata flyover.
As the Twitterati trend Hamare Abba Jaan amid pushback to Yogi's comments, we discuss if communal politics is back this election season.
Barkha Dutt in conversation with Senior Journalists Saba Naqvi and Sharat Pradhan, Political Analyst Dr. AK Verma, Author Shantanu Gupta, and The Changermakers' Founder Ambreen Zaidi.
Barkha Dutt allows Yogi's biographer to get away with saying that "abba jaan" was a respectable term. But what Yogi actually said was those who use the terms abba jaan, used to digest all the ration before his regime. I suppose this will be the excuse to say that an FIR for hate speech cannot be made out,, as another panelist.. says that the term referred to the former CM!