Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath was unlikely to be in the brightest of spirits on the evening of April 13. He was under isolation –...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath was unlikely to be in the brightest of spirits on the evening of April 13. He was under isolation – several of his officials had tested positive for Covid-19 earlier in the day. He was perhaps running a temperature or nursing a body ache himself. (His office announced he had tested positive next morning.)
Outside, a horror show was unfolding in Lucknow – the night sky was heavy with the smoke of pyres of those who had succumbed to the virus. That day India’s most populous state, with nearly as many people as Brazil, saw the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in more than six months.
A tweet
At twenty past nine that evening, Adityanath – an unapologetic and unabashed Hindu nationalist – put out a tweet. “Faith should be respected,” he wrote, in Hindi, “but faith is for humans and not vice versa.”
He added, “In these times of a pandemic, we should keep faith aside to save humanity and participate in the country’s efforts against the coronavirus.”
'आस्था' का सम्मान होना चाहिए लेकिन आस्था मानव के लिए है, मानव आस्था के लिए नहीं।
महामारी के इस दौर में हम अपनी आस्था को एक ओर रखकर 'मानवता' को बचाने के लिए कोरोना के विरुद्ध जारी देश...
