“Selfishness of few pushed nation to tragedy of Partition”: CM Yogi Adityanath

TIL Desk/National/Lucknow/ India would have become a superpower quickly if Partition hadn’t taken place, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Monday as he blamed the “selfishness of a few” for the division of the country.

“This date gives us new inspiration. It inspires us to draw some lessons from those sad moments in history,” the chief minister said while addressing a meeting at the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan to mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.

No society can move forward by forgetting history, and that is why it should be “our resolution that personal interest, family, caste, opinion, religion, region and language can never be above the nation”, Adityanath said.

“Had India remained undivided after independence in 1947, then it would not have taken long for it to become a superpower for the world today,” he said. “Selfishness of a few pushed the nation towards the tragedy of Partition,” the chief minister said and added that it was not a partition of a piece of land, but of two hearts. It cost millions of lives, he said.