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“What’s in a name?”: BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra stuns Mahila Congress President who tried to act smart by calling UP CM ‘Ajay Bisht’

June 12, 2021
The Commune

During a television debate on India TV between Bhartia Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra and national spokesperson of the Congress Sushmita Dev, the latter kept referring to Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Ajay Mohan Bisht who took the name Yogi Adityanath after he became Abbot (Mahant) or head priest of the Gorakhnath Math, a Hindu temple in Gorakhpur.

In 2022, UP which is India’s most populous state will go to the polls and the Congress spokesperson was talking about the growing upheaval against the CM and the discontent expressed by BJP MLAs, and alleged that there was a growing rift between Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Dev went on to say that Modi had invited the UP CM several times to Delhi which he had refused but kept referring to the UP CM as Ajay Bisht while the BJP spokesperson kept quiet.

However, when the anchor asked why to keep referring to Yogi by his old name, the Congress spokesperson said that Ajay Bisht has never said no to this name and also made it very clear that when the Election Commission banned him the name used was Ajay Bisht.

When the time came for Sambit Patra to respond, he said how the Congress President Antonia Maino aka Sonia Gandhi has any knowledge about the growing discontent within the ranks of the BJP and the rift between Yogi and Modi.

He then went on to say whether ‘Antonia Maino’ was given this by the PM or she ascertained this information from the UP CM. Sambit Patra kept calling Sonia Gandhi by her birth name Antonia Maino.

When the anchor interjected why Patra is also calling Congress President Antonia Maino, Patra gave the same reply given earlier by the Dev who had said what’s in the name given lovingly by one’s parents.

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