Unforgivable: Akhilesh says Yogi Adityanath insulted Lord Krishna, vows BJP defeat

Akhilesh Yadav accused Yogi Adityanath of insulting Lord Krishna through an alleged cowherd remark. The exchange intensified the SP-BJP battle before the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election.Akhilesh Yadav accused Yogi Adityanath of insulting Lord Krishna through an alleged cowherd remark.Lucknow,Nov 12, 2026 12:55 ISTSamajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of insulting Lord Krishna through his alleged remarks about cowherds and claimed that the BJP would be defeated in the 2027 Assembly elections, news agency Press Trust of India reported.Yadav made the allegations in a post on X while sharing a video clip of Adityanath's remarks at an event in Uttarakhand a day earlier.

In the clip, the Chief Minister purportedly said that without people from the hill state, Yadav would have been grazing buffaloes in his native Saifai in Etawah.“By using abusive language against ‘Gopalaks’ (cowherds), the Uttar Pradesh chief minister has, by implication, insulted Gopal, or Lord Krishna. This is unforgivable,” Yadav said.“First, he was involved, along with a big gang, in the theft of offerings, donations and contributions made to the Ram temple in Ayodhya, and gave them a clean chit out of fear that the truth might come out.

Now he is attacking Lord Krishna. He is using such objectionable language because he wants to establish his own power, separate from Sanatan Dharma,” Yadav alleged.

The former Chief Minister claimed that it was because of “this very malice” that Adityanath had members of the Pal community “beaten with batons” in Varanasi. He also accused him of showing “utter disrespect” to a statue of Rajmata Devi Ahilyabai Holkar in the city after a Shivalinga was removed from it.Yadav described Holkar as a great devotee of Lord Shiva who belonged to the Holkar community of the shepherd caste. “He is neither a true devotee of Lord Shiva, nor of Lord Ram, nor of Lord Krishna, nor of Devi Ahilyabai,” Yadav said in the X post, without directly naming Adityanath.In an apparent swipe at preacher Dhirendra Shastri, who is scheduled to hold a religious discourse in Kunda in Pratapgarh next week, Yadav referred to him as “Dushmukhi”.

He alleged that Shastri and Adityanath had similarities in their attire, language and alleged remarks about Lord Ram and Lord Krishna.The SP chief also criticised the proposed religious event, claiming that the BJP was inviting such figures because the chief minister had become “politically weak."Criticising Adityanath's language, Yadav said, “We forgive you because you are not in control of yourself. From someone who cannot even control his own willpower and becomes unsettled every now and then throughout the day, expecting control or balance over his words is pointless.”“The more your frustration and apprehension over defeat grow, the lower your language will sink,” he added.Yadav claimed that Adityanath had become “afraid of the defeats in 2024 and 2026”, referring to the Lok Sabha and recent MLC polls. “That is why your speech has gone awry.

You will suffer a permanent defeat in 2027,” he said, according to PTI.“If you were winning, you would be talking about yourself and your achievements, not about us. The more offensively you speak, the worse your defeat will be, because the 2027 election has now become a contest between five per cent arrogant, supremacist and dominant people and 95 per cent PDA,” Yadav said.Yadav's remarks marked a fresh exchange of accusations between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, with the SP chief linking Adityanath's alleged comments to his claim that the BJP would lose in 2027.- Ends