Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday claimed that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set a new world record by spending Rs 7,000 crore on a "cosmetic facial".
In a post on X in Hindi, Yadav said the chief minister has spent over Rs 7,000 crore on a "cosmetic facial", "derived from tax money merely to project a false image as genuine".
He termed it "highly objectionable" and "utterly condemnable", particularly for the country's largest state, which is grappling with poverty, joblessness, unemployment, economic slowdown, MSP issues, and a lack of basic amenities like electricity, water, roads, and healthcare.
The former chief minister said, "With this very amount, we would establish two-three world-class universities offering education from 'KG to PG & Research' to transform the future of our children and youth, and would steer UP onto the path of progress and prosperity and build a 'Neo India'!" Reacting to Yadav's claims, BJP MLC Vijay Bahadur Pathak told PTI, "The Information Department of the state government does the publicity of the various welfare schemes of the government. This has been followed traditionally. It is natural that the photograph of the Chief Minister will be used in the publicity of the government schemes. This is the publicity of the government schemes, so that the awareness level among the people goes up." "What happened in the regime of Akhilesh (Yadav) jee, he should also see it," Pathak said.
