Chief of the Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav made a subtle jab at the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday when he stated that if the World Cup match had been played in Lucknow rather than Ahmedabad, Team India would have prevailed.
Speaking at a public gathering in the Etawah region of Uttar Pradesh, the SP president went on to say that Team India would have had the blessings of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lord Vishnu if the match had taken place in Lucknow.
The former Samajwadi Party government renamed Lucknow’s cricket venue as ‘Ekana Stadium.’ Notably, Lord Vishnu goes by several names, one of which is Ekana.
The Yogi Adityanath administration then renamed it as ‘Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium’ in 2018 in remembrance of the late prime minister and BJP stalwart.
‘The match (World Cup 2023 final) that took place in Gujarat, if it had happened in Lucknow, they (team India) would have got the blessings of so many… If the match had happened there (Lucknow), team India would have got the blessings of Lord Vishnu and Atal Bihari Vajpayee and India would have won…,’ the SP chief said among a cheerful crowd in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah.
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