Adityanath, Kejriwal trade barbs on Twitter over Covid-19 management

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and UP CM Yogi Adityanath

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his comments in Lok Sabha on Aam Aadmi party's Covid-19 management in the capital. This invited ire from UP CM Yogi Adityanath and led to a twitter spat between the two chief ministers.

Yogi Adityanath tweeted, "Listen Kejriwal, you forced the workers of UP to leave Delhi when the entire humanity was groaning due to the pain of corona. Your government did an undemocratic and inhuman act like leaving even small children and women helpless on the UP border in the middle of the night. Should we call you a traitor of humanity or..."

Adityanath labelled Kejriwal a "liar" and said, "The electricity-water connection was cut and the sleeping people were picked up and sent to the UP border by buses. Announcement was made that buses are going for Anand Vihar, beyond that buses will be available for UP-Bihar. The UP government arranged buses for the migrant laborers and brought them back safely."

Kejriwal rebutted with, "Listen Yogi, you just let it be. Just like the dead bodies of the people of UP were floating in the river and you were giving advertisements of your false applause in Times magazine by spending crores of rupees. I have never seen such a heartless and cruel ruler like you."