Responding to PM Modi’s remarks on Samajwadi Party’s election symbol, Akhilesh Yadav wrote on Twitter: “Cycle is the aeroplane of the common people, it is the pride of rural India, to insult a cycle is to insult the entire nation.”
Akhilesh Yadav has responded to PM Narendra Modi’s remarks on the Samajwadi Party and its election symbol – a cycle.
Speaking at a BJP rally in Hardoi on Sunday, PM Narendra Modi had referred to the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts that claimed 56 lives. A court only recently sentenced to death 38 individuals convicted for the blasts.
“I remained silent for so many years because the hearing on the Ahmedabad blasts case was going on. Today, when the court has given them the punishment, I am raising the subject before the country,” PM Modi said.
Mocking the Samajwadi Party and its election symbol, the Prime Minister went further to add, “in the initial blasts, the bombs were kept on cycles…I wonder why they [terrorists] opted cycles.”
Samajwadi Party chief and former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav took to Twitter to respond to the Prime Minister’s remarks.
He wrote: “Our cycle connects farms with farmers and lays the foundation for their prosperity. Our cycle breaks through social bounds and drops daughters to school.
“Our cycle remains unaffected by inflation, it runs at its own pace. A cycle is the aeroplane of the common people, it is the pride of rural India, to insult a cycle is to insult the entire nation.
The tweet was accompanied by a picture of a child riding pillion on a bicycle.
