Mahakumbh 2025: CM Yogi Adityanath Throws ‘Pigs Got Dirt' Remark At Critics

In a sharp jibe at the Opposition leaders who criticised the Uttar Pradesh government over mismanagement during Maha Kumbh 2025, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said that people received whatever they searched for at the Hindu festival. "Vultures got only dead bodies. Pigs got dirt," he said in the UP assembly, as per a report by the Hindustan Times.

"Sensitive people got a beautiful picture of relationships. People with faith got a sense of fulfilment. Gentlemen got gentlemanliness, the poor got employment, and the rich got business. Devotees got clean arrangements... Devotees got God. It means that everyone has seen and felt things according to their nature and character", the UP CM said.

Highlighting the unity factor during the massive religious congregation, Yogi Adityanath said the Maha Kumbh gave the message of unity to the world. "All the people are bathing at one ghat. What can be a bigger message of unity than this and this is the true Sanatan Dharma too," the chief minister added.

Referring to the appointment of Mohammad Azam Khan as the in-charge of Kumbh in 2013, Yogi further said that in 2013 Kumbh, the former CM Akhilesh Yadav appointed a 'non-Sanatani' as the mela's in-charge.

"We have not played with faith like you. In your time, the chief minister did not have time to see and review the event and therefore he appointed a non-Sanatani as the in-charge of Kumbh," he further said.

Claiming that the 2013 Kumbh was full of chaos, corruption, and pollution, the Chief Minister said, "Here I myself was reviewing Kumbh and am still doing it. This is the reason that whoever went to the Kumbh in 2013 saw chaos, corruption, and pollution. There was no water fit for bathing in the Triveni of Ganga, Yamuna, and Saraswati. The prime minister of Mauritius is an example of this who refused to take a bath."