Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is often referred as a firebrand Hindutva leader, has landed in a soup for refusing to wear a skull cap at poet-saint Kabir mausoleum in Maghar.
Adityanath had arrived in the town on Wednesday to take stock of preparation for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Thursday visit.
When he visited the mausoleum, where PM Modi will offer floral tributes to mark the 500th death anniversary of Kabir, the caretaker offered him a skull cap. As mausoleum caretaker Khadim Hussain moved to place the cap on the Chief Minister’s head, Adityanath politely declined.
“Stop stop… it is done,” FE quoted CM as telling Khadim. To this, the caretaker said, “Sir, hold this (the cap) in your hand.” The CM then agreed to his request and posed for a photo with the skull cap in his hand with Khadim standing next to him.
Khadim said that when he offered the skull cap to the CM he refused it very politely. “He was smiling while saying no to me,” he said.
