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Yogi Adityanath alleged removal of 1.27 crore Hindu voters in Uttar Pradesh's electoral revision. BJP defended the process and discussed political rivals and temple theft claims.
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00:00An India Today interview has created ripples.
00:03Yogi Adityanath, remember, told India Today in that interview
00:07that 1.27 crore Hindu waters were deleted in Uttar Pradesh.
00:13Now, Arvind Kejriwal has said, and he has in fact put out a clip of the interview saying
00:19that EC does whatever those in power tell it.
00:23He has told Yogi Adityanath, they are out to finish you.
00:28And he says, congratulations in advance, Akhilesh Ji.
00:32So, you know, this of course is an interview which has generated a lot of political conversations.
00:38Joining me on the show tonight, Amitabh Tiwari, founder of Voter Vibe.
00:42Rashid Kidwai, author and political analyst, is joining us.
00:45We have Gansha Amtiwari, national spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party.
00:48Tuhin Sina, national spokesperson of the BJP.
00:51Tuhin Sina, many would say that Arvind Kejriwal is fishing in troubled waters,
00:55but is there really troubled waters here?
00:59Is there an acceptance of troubled waters here?
01:04Good evening, Maria. Good evening, everybody.
01:06A very happy post-Tiwali and Kovardhan puja to everybody.
01:10I hope Gansha Am would also be celebrating Kovardhan puja.
01:14You know, Yogi Ji's interview has made one thing very clear,
01:17that the entire SIR is an absolutely neutral process.
01:23And that is perhaps why Akhilesh Yadav has not been participating aggressively in the vote-chory campaign.
01:30Of course, you know, the spokespersons have been doing a different time on television,
01:33but Akhilesh Yadav, per se, has been very circumspect.
01:37And that only proves that SIR has been a very neutral...
01:42I mean, maybe you have read something about his political moves in recent months
01:46that we as political journalists haven't.
01:48So how do you think that Akhilesh Yadav has been circumspect?
01:54For him, vote-chory has never been the core issue like Rahul Gandhi,
01:59like it has been for Rahul Gandhi in state after state.
02:02Rahul Gandhi, per se, is also a negative person.
02:04That's another thing.
02:05But the point is, the SIR has been a completely independent process.
02:09What has Yogi Ji subsequently said?
02:11That we have raised the issue with the Election Commission
02:13because we believe in a democratic process.
02:15We believe in conversation.
02:17And we are also confident that our BLAs are large in number
02:23and they would make sure that a majority of those
02:26who have been unfairly deleted, if at all, will come back into the voting list.
02:32So we believe in a...
02:34Let's have Ghanshyam on the screen, please.
02:36Let me bring in Ghanshyam specifically on this.
02:39Ghanshyam, here is Arvind Kejriwal congratulating Akhilesh Yadav,
02:43saying, Akhilesh Ji ko advance mein badhai.
02:45Will he accept that badhai?
02:48A good invite to you, the viewers and the Ferroco panelists.
02:51I'm very happy Diwali to everybody.
02:54We believe that even in the gas chamber of...
02:57And respond also to what Thuin said.
02:59That he hopes that you are celebrating Govardhan Puja.
03:02Even in the gas chamber of Delhi,
03:05where children are coughing and the elderly are in trouble,
03:09led by BJP, created by BJP,
03:12each of us want to do our best for the country.
03:15Without doubting each other on what our faith is.
03:21All right.
03:23We'll...
03:23Okay, we'll try and fix that line with...
03:26And Gyanesh Gupta.
03:27It is a tragic irony for General Shah and Gyanesh Gupta.
03:31Because what Adityanaji is saying
03:33is a template across any state in India.
03:35So you have the state election commission
03:38that maintains one set of roles for local polls.
03:41And then you have Gyanesh Gupta and General Shah
03:43who has created another set of roles for the country.
03:46And there's a difference.
03:47Then there's an accusation,
03:49the entire Gen Z,
03:50who General Shah's police and goons of BJP beat black and blue,
03:53especially the Daughters of India,
03:54they came on the street
03:55because their names were not there.
03:57Adityanaji is saying the same thing,
03:59that the 18 plus new voters,
04:01the names are missing.
04:02The third thing that he is saying is
04:04that beyond that,
04:06beyond these two differences,
04:07there are extra differences.
04:09So the adult population,
04:11by any census in India,
04:13any data research in India,
04:14is around 102 crores.
04:16As per General Shah and Gyanesh Gupta,
04:18SIR has 88, 89 crore people.
04:20Where are these 15 crore people?
04:21This is what the entire discussion is about.
04:24So somehow Adityanaji got the wrong memo.
04:27Maybe he read the opposition speech
04:28in going into that interview
04:30because he has to say one final thing,
04:32which is even Sherlock Holmes
04:33may not be able to crack it.
04:35How does Adityanaji know that
04:36how many Hindus are there,
04:38how many Muslims are there?
04:40No, he responded to that.
04:41To that specific question
04:43that was asked by Shweta.
04:44He responded by saying that
04:48based on,
04:50let's play that part.
04:51Specifically,
04:52I'm going to play that chunk
04:53of the interview again
04:54so that if both of us find
04:55an answer to that specific question,
04:58I would request the producer
04:59to play that interview chunk again.
05:00I don't know.
05:13I don't know.
05:19I don't know.
05:35Thank you very much.
05:51This is why I said that the people who are struggling with these two things are very important.
05:58One, if you win, it's your fault. If you win, it's your fault. If you win, it's your fault.
06:07The first time, the second time, the second time, the second time, the second time, the second time, the second
06:17time,
06:31the second time, the second time, the second time, the second time, the second time it was pink,
06:34and the second time, it's your fault.
06:36They don't have to say anything,
06:37they cannot say anything.
06:38The question and answer to anything about it is pushed at the table.
06:41I don't want to go back to SIR.
06:44I don't want to go back to SIR.
06:47I don't want to go back to SIR.
06:48Because in the U.P.
06:49SIR was the first Muslim people.
06:52In the Muslim people,
06:54there were 1.65% of the Muslim people.
06:57After SIR?
06:58After SIR.
07:00I don't want to go back to SIR.
07:03So you have a loss?
07:04I don't want to go back to SIR.
07:06In the election commission,
07:08we had the memorandum up with their own personal choice.
07:12We've also lost a lot.
07:14We really have no exception.
07:15After this, we have become a leader.
07:18We have 1.27 million,
07:20on Hindu peoples who were gone back.
07:23They have lost my life in the PYM.
07:29But,
07:30in the United States,
07:30the PYM.
07:33The name of the United States,
07:34When did he say that?
07:3866,000,000 and 56,000,000,000.
07:4055,000,000,000.
07:42Those Hindus are for the human rights
07:43who are being born with the human rights of the human rights.
07:47But the human rights of the human rights of the human rights.
07:49In the 1980s, there are 45,500,000.
07:54Those human rights of human rights are for human rights.
07:56How do you feel about this human rights of the human rights?
08:18So he has given pranaam evidence to suggest that there is a problem here.
08:24Gansha, I'm coming to you, but let me bring in Rashid Kidwai.
08:26Rashid, what does it speak about what's happening between Delhi and Lucknow?
08:32You know, for Yogi Aditya Nath, first to say, talk about 1 crore, 27 lakh Hindu voters being deleted,
08:40and then explaining it in details as to how he knows about it,
08:44and why he is so concerned about the entire exercise.
08:47Then you have an overactive UP CEO talking, I know every time there is a model which is revealed,
08:54you know, be it by the Congress Party or by the Samajwadi Party,
08:58be it the Pili Bhut model or otherwise, they take action.
09:01What really is happening in the context of Uttar Pradesh here?
09:05So, Maria, clearly the distance between Delhi and Lucknow is not just about 500 kilometers,
09:10it is much more deeper.
09:12This here is a situation where the Chief Minister is at variance with my good friend who is sitting here,
09:17Mr. Tuhin Sinha.
09:18He is indicting the election commission.
09:20He is talking about what we all are saying, what the opposition is saying,
09:24what the thinking citizens are saying, that the election commission is incompetent.
09:28Election commissioner has made a mockery of the electoral process.
09:32People who voted for Panchayat, people who voted for Lok Sabha 2024,
09:36do not figure in it to the magnitude of 1.27.
09:40I urge Mr. Tuhin Sinha to hear, you know, Mr. Yogi Adityanath loud and clear
09:45and join the, you know, chorus for impeachment of Mr. Gyanesh Kumar Gupta.
09:51This is what better would you need?
09:53Here he is saying, and I don't want to get into the Hittu Muslim binaries,
09:57but what is happening, and Maria, you understand politics very well.
10:02This also reflects that, you know, what is there, the central, you know, high command,
10:06and what is there in Uttar Pradesh.
10:07Yes, why do you think, Amitabh Tiwari,
10:11why do you think, Amitabh Tiwari, here is the Uttar Pradesh chief minister,
10:17indicting the chief election commissioner?
10:21I don't think it's about indicting.
10:23If you see the statement in the whole context and the question which Swita asked,
10:29he is basically referring to the fact that if and when Samaj Bhatia party is going to lose the polls,
10:35then they will raise the bogey of EVM, or the opposition earlier used to raise the bogey of EVM.
10:41Now they have a reason of SIR.
10:44And it's time to say that in SIR, it's not that just the core voters of the Samaj Bhatia party,
10:51or their names have been deleted.
10:53It's also that the voters of BJP's names have also been deleted.
10:59And one cannot argue that because of SIR later, I mean, post polls,
11:05and I think his confidence is also given a number as to how many seats he's going to win,
11:10is the reason that will come up.
11:12So he's largely trying to neutralize the attempt of the opposition at a later point of time
11:17to say that the elections were lost due to SIR.
11:21See, on SIR, if you see the spokespersons appearing on national televisions across channels of Samaj Bhatia party,
11:29you will see that different people give different reasons.
11:33In fact, I have heard Samaj Bhatia party spokespersons also claiming
11:37that they have been able to retain their voter bases,
11:40whereas the names of voters of the BJP have been deleted.
11:45No, but the similar claim was made also by TMC in the run-up to Bengal elections
11:51that, you know, they were not really worried about what's happening in the context of Bihar
11:55when RJD approached the Supreme Court.
11:57TMC was certainly confident that their BLAs had done all the calculations
12:02and they would ensure that their own voters are very much there on the voter list.
12:07That was the claim also that was made.
12:09Yeah, so that's what he is attempting to say,
12:14that you have been able to successfully keep the names of your core vote base
12:20in the SIR draft list.
12:23If at all, you have not been able to do that.
12:26It's not a problem which only the Samaj Bhatia party is facing
12:29because this is a problem which every other party is facing
12:32because of lacuna in the system of the SIR.
12:35Because if you remember, there was a program launched by the BJP
12:41to add 200 voters per booth after the first draft was released
12:47because they were apprehensive that the names of voters
12:51and the example which he is giving,
12:53that example even Samaj Bhatia party is giving,
12:55that the number of voters is not tallying in the panchayat rolls
13:00and the assembly elections rolls.
13:03So, if he is saying the same thing,
13:04I don't know why there is controversy regarding that.
13:07Okay, Gansham, quickly, 30 seconds.
13:09And then we move on to another chunk of the interview.
13:12Yes.
13:12I thought Amita was a man of numbers.
13:14He completely is undoing what he stands for.
13:17With that aside,
13:18the question that I asked
13:19and no one addressed it,
13:22how does Adityanath know how many Hindus and how many Muslims?
13:24He doesn't mention that answer.
13:26By the way, the numbers he is quoting is,
13:28even those numbers are wrong, Maria.
13:31The state election commission has 16.91 crore voters in their list.
13:36Pre-SIR, there were 15 crore voters.
13:38Post-SIR, 2 crore voters were deleted.
13:41So, what Gyanesh Gupta and General Shah have done
13:43is he has created a maddening set of numbers.
13:46They don't match with one another.
13:47My final point, final point,
13:49if Adityanath says that 1.27 crore Hindu voters are missing,
13:53there is a mismatch between the state election commission
13:55and the SIR, which is more than 3 crores.
13:58The mismatch from pre-SIR, post-SIR, 2.58 crores.
14:02So, if it is 1.6 crores...
14:02Tuhin, that's a lot of numbers being thrown at by Gansham.
14:07Amita, will you respond?
14:08The numbers?
14:10And then I bring in Tuhin.
14:12First of all,
14:14yeah,
14:15first of all,
14:16since my friend Gansham keeps asking,
14:19how do you know their Hindu votes, you know?
14:21We know largely by the names and the surnames.
14:24Unless Gansham also, like Khargeji,
14:27believes that, you know, Diwali is a Khusiyoki Eid,
14:31I would consider him a Hindu.
14:33Similarly, from the names,
14:35you would know whether they are Hindus or Muslims.
14:37But the point is,
14:39you know,
14:39what strikes me about the interview
14:41is Yogi Ji's confidence.
14:43You know,
14:44he's not complaining.
14:45He's not being a crybaby like Rahul Gandhi.
14:47Look at the confidence.
14:48He says,
14:48we have put up the issue with the election commission.
14:51We are confident it will get sorted.
14:53And yet,
14:54we are confident about a grand victory.
14:56I think this is what matters in the end.
14:59And I think opposition party should also draw a lesson and stop being...
15:03I'll move on to look at another part of this interview.
15:05While Yogi Adityanath is banking on his ACBs or 80-20 arithmetic,
15:10Akhilesh Yadav,
15:11remember,
15:11is countering with what he says is moving ahead of MY,
15:16which was earlier Muslim Yadav,
15:17to now PDA,
15:19which is Pichhara Dalit Alpsankhyaq.
15:22Two political formulas,
15:24two rival strategies,
15:25and a high-stakes battle.
15:26Can Yogi's 80-20 really trump Akhilesh Yadav's PDA?
15:33Here's a report.
15:35And then I bring in the guests.
15:41Uttar Pradesh CM,
15:42Yogi Adityanath,
15:43is setting the tone for 2027,
15:46well before the campaign officially begins.
16:10At Panchayat,
16:11the chief minister said 80% of votes put back the BJP and its allies,
16:19leaving just 20% with the opposition.
16:21He has projected a 350-plus seat target in the 403-member assembly
16:27and pitched Suraksha, Sushasana and Samridhi
16:31as the BJP's electoral plank.
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25:03of population so if even if 75% of these cohorts have been voting for the BJP that translates into
25:1245% vote share and they have been winning.
25:15So the Samajwadi party or the opposition was largely left with 40%.
25:19Now what happened in 2024 is this non-Jat of Dalit vote because of the Sammidan Khatremehan narrative which is
25:25around 10% shifted towards the Samajwadi Party Party or the India bloc.
25:29So it became 50-50.
25:30And for the trouble of the BJP, the contest in UP has shifted from a triangular battle to a bipolar
25:40battle.
25:41So in 2017, when they came into power, BSP got 22% vote share and NDA got 325 seats.
25:51But in 2024, Lok Sabha election, the BSP fell to just 9% vote share.
25:57And if you convert the assembly leads, the 37 Lok Sabha seats into assembly leads, BJP's tally or the NDA's
26:04tally is 174.
26:06So BSP falls from 22 to 9 and NDA falls from 325 to 175, 150 seats.
26:13Now, which are the vote blocks which were damaged?
26:16Largely the non-Yadav OBCs and also the non-Jata Uttarits.
26:22Now there is an argument that the Samvidhan Khatrameha narrative no longer exists.
26:27So where does this non-Jata Uttarit, who had voted in large numbers for the Samajwati Party alliance,
26:34largely because of the presence of the Congress?
26:37Congress is the softening factor in that alliance because the Samajwati Party has been trying to do the Dalits for
26:42a long time,
26:43but it was not happening.
26:44So I think this is the vote base which could again go back to the BJP if they come up
26:51with something like the cash incentive scheme,
26:54which was also spoken on in the interview.
26:56Correct.
26:56So this is a vote.
26:58Yes.
26:59That narrative is no longer on the ground.
27:02Okay.
27:02So if Samvidhan Khatrameha is no longer a selling point here, Rashid,
27:09then what is the Congress Party bringing on the table as far as this alliance is concerned?
27:15What is their combination in terms of narrative or caste factors?
27:20So, Madhya, we must understand that 80% business is all, you know, Jumla Bazi.
27:24It's a bravado.
27:25It's just to keep your carder happy.
27:27You know, in Uttar Pradesh, the BSP, World Bank that Amitabh was referring to,
27:33traditionally acting in past two elections as the biggest insurance policy for the BJP in state assembly elections.
27:39Now, that is disintegrating.
27:41Mr. Amit Shah in 2017 had very painstrictly built, you know, built this kind of social coalition of smaller caste
27:48and non-Yadav OBCs.
27:50Now, that is also disintegrating because the way Mr. Yogi Adityanath likes to operate is something that, you know,
27:57he is not a coalition builder, he is not a consensus builder.
28:01So, these kind of things are posing a lot of problems for the BJP at the ground level.
28:05And I think the Congress is there, as Amitabh was saying, rightly so, to get this kind of a chunk
28:11of, you know, Dalit vote.
28:12If that happens, then the BJP will have a lot of problems to face Akhilesh Yadav.
28:16Okay, another talking point in this election is going to be Chadhava Chori.
28:21When that specific question was asked, remember, the Ram Mandir issue has once again triggered a political war of words.
28:26Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has called the Chadhava Chori incident unfortunate,
28:31asserting that his government, along with the Temple Trust, did everything possible to bring the culprits to justice.
28:36He took a swipe at Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav,
28:40who is scheduled to travel to Ayodhya, along with his wife Dimpal Yadav, on December 12th.
28:47Yogi Adityanath has said that those who once ordered firing on Ram devotees,
28:52subjected saints to lati charge and neglected the holy city,
28:55must apologize before visiting the shrine.
28:58Let's listen in.
28:58Thank you very much.
29:29We have no trust in the government.
29:33We have no trust in the government.
29:34It's a trust.
29:37Autonomy of the public.
29:39Because we have created it.
29:41Yes.
29:42We are two people who are in the inner and outer of the inner part.
29:47We are in the inner part.
29:49We have the support of our people.
29:50We have the support of our people in the world.
29:56we are going to run away from the Uttar Pradesh and the Uttar Pradesh.
30:04We are going to support one of the Uttar Pradesh and one of the Uttar Pradesh.
30:12But as soon as it came to us, we are going to get to the test.
30:17We are going to get to the test.
30:25which were the two of them in order to the Supreme Court and to the Supreme Court.
30:36Today, I told them all about this issue.
30:40We have decided to do it.
30:43After all, we have decided to do it.
30:49उच्छतम नयायले ने इस पर कारवाई किया और मैं धन्यबाद दूंगा सिराम जन्भूमी तीर छेतर ट्रॉस्ट को जिनों ने जिन
30:57पर आकसेप लगे थे उन लोगों को ट्रॉस्ट से बाहर किया जिन 6-7 लोगों पर आरोप लगे थे उनकी
31:06गिरफतारियां हुई और आज �
31:08एक ट्रांस्पेरेंट विवस्ता फिर से वहाँ पर स्थापित है। चंद लोगों के गलत कारियों की सजा पुरी अयोध्या को नहीं
31:19दी जा सकती है।
31:40समाजवादी पार्टी के मुख्या अगर अयोध्या आना चाहते हैं तो उनको अपने कृत्यों के लिए कारनामों के लिए राम भक्तों
31:49से माफी मांगनी चाहिए अयोध्या की उपिक्साव ही थी।
31:53अयोध्या में उस समय की स्टिति क्या थी।
32:11अज़ आप देखेंगे शिर राम जन भूमी परिसर में उन सभी को सम्मानित किया गया है।
32:18Is on all every way that is a routine goes with religious people
32:23which are related to religious people
32:26We have a cultural philosophy
32:28that she's been made out in ECG
32:29on this AM
32:30is an Assim like
32:32in International Airport
32:36ihn
32:37he had something
32:39where inenasoli
32:41He came to be
32:41He came from
32:43He came from
32:49muntah sabri ka bhi mandir hai, niisad raja ka bhi mandir hai,
32:53These all are in Ramanjanaanaa sura.
32:57These are our days.
32:59In Ramanjanaanaa sura,
33:01they have made a way to reach them,
33:04which are the first주 of Raman.
33:08These are our all-tex characters.
33:10and these Ramanjanaanaa sura come to reach them..."
33:18These are our element.
33:19I think all the ghosts of Ramanjanaanaana or Ramanjanaana,
33:19But in Ayodhyaa,
33:39What's taking Khilesh Yadav to Ayodhya, Ghanshyam Tiwari, is it more like he wants this issue
33:47not to be part of the election conversations and hence, just be done with it kind?
33:53In the line of the examples he gave, what is the work in Ayodhya?
33:59Those who can oppose the Ayodhya when someone goes to the mandir.
34:04And those who are like the archery of Ayodhya, we will not ask them, nor will they say Ayodhya
34:09not to say. But to the substantial issue, on 15th July 20, this year 2026,
34:16and on 19th July 2026, Adityanath twice mentioned that
34:20what is in Ayodhya, the Prime Minister said, 45 crore devotees have gone to Ayodhya.
34:2845 crore shradhaloes have gone to Ayodhya.
34:32Adityanath Ji said that on twice,
34:34doodh ka doodh paani ka paani ho jayega. Now he says in the interview, that the Home Secretary
34:39of State is appointed by him. The DM appointed by him. Every member of that trust is appointed
34:46by either Amit Shah or Prime Minister and their office. So in every person guarding the donation
34:52is appointed by either the Prime Minister or Adityanath. These are the two people who go there
34:57with cameras alongside CCTV. Sohin, is this an issue which is a matter of concern for the BJP?
35:02There is no place to hide. Will it hurt you? Are you fearing that it can hurt you?
35:07Basically, Akhilesh Yadav has shown that like Rahul Gandhi, he is a chunawi Hindu.
35:12You know, it took him three long years. He was invited for Pran Pratishtha. He refused the invitation.
35:18He could have gone when the mandir construction was completed last November.
35:22In fact, what happened at Pran Pratishtha, one of their MPs, Shafirul Rehman Barkh,
35:27who is no more, in fact said that I am waiting for the day when a masjid will be recreated
35:32over here.
35:33So this has been the attitude of the Samajwadi Party. But I have been asking all Samajwadi Party spokespersons,
35:39since they are all devout Hindus and they believe in, you know, Sanatan roots.
35:44I am just asking them and I am sure Ganshyam may be able to do that.
35:48Put your hand on your heart and say that the Krishna Janma Bhumi temple is a Krishna temple.
35:54It is not, you know, an Eidga. We will all wait for the court verdict.
35:59We are all committed to the rule of the law. But I am sure you must be having your voice
36:03of conscience.
36:04And that voice of conscience, I am sure, will make you say that the Krishna Janma Bhumi temple is a
36:08Krishna temple.
36:09You will not be able to say that.
36:13Well, it is only BJP that asks people to prove their faith on television.
36:17And it is only BJP whose leaders go to the temples with camera. And it is only BJP that ensures
36:23that when theft happens, those cameras are off.
36:26My name is Ganshyam. Ganshyam Krishnabhagwan ka bhi naam hai.
36:34What took? What took a Kleshaan of three years to visit.
36:40What took a Kleshaan of three years to visit?
37:04Let me bring in Amitab and Rashid.
37:09Rashid, you know, will this be a talking point or will the chief minister appear to be a man who
37:17walked the talk?
37:18Will he be seen as a strong leader who actually ensured that justice is delivered in terms of timeline?
37:25He said within 24 hours an SIT will be constituted, SIT will submit its report, action taken.
37:31Will he be seen as a man of words and actions?
37:34Maria, the fact that it happened, you can make a technical point that this was a Supreme Court had said
37:39there should be a trust, etc.
37:41All the appointments were made by the government of the day.
37:43So it's a political, you appoint SIT and all just like a case of theft and you have a probe.
37:48So I think this has hurt, you know, the sentiments and it has shaken people's face.
37:53Whether it will translate into votes or vote against the government or not, I'm not so sure.
37:57But it is something that, you know, people are very alive to this and they feel betrayed.
38:03Okay, so there is another part in this interview which is about contesting in Ayodhya.
38:09Remember, both the leaders, both the present chief minister and the former chief minister and Akhilesh Yadav have dared each
38:17other to contest from Ayodhya.
38:19Let's listen in to what Yogi Adityanath said specifically in that context.
38:24So Yogi Adityanath, Ayodhya, can we fight against Ayodhya?
38:27Look, we did not fight against Ayodhya.
38:29We did not fight against Ayodhya.
38:32Those who gave me a penalty, I gave them the answer to the penalty, but when they were standing up,
38:38what would they do?
38:39So we will not fight against Ayodhya?
38:46We will not fight against Ayodhya?
38:51No.
38:59Swampy Adityanath only a few days.
39:37All right.
39:38We have really come to the end of this discussion, Tuhin, Sinha, Ghansham Tiwadi, Rashid Kidwai and Amitabh Tiwadi.
39:44Really appreciate your time.
39:46Thank you for joining us.