<p class="bodytext">Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that he is a Hindu and does not celebrate Eid.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaking in the state Assembly, Adityanath also said his party would not "tolerate" attempts to break the country and would instead "break those who try to do so".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I am a Hindu... I don't celebrate Eid... I am proud of my culture," the chief minister said amid thumping of desks by the BJP members in the Assembly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said that his government would extend every help to those who celebrated the festival of Eid. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Adityanath said the state government managed to persuade Muslims to defer Friday prayers by a few hours to enable Hindus to celebrate Holi, which also fell on the same day.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Adityanath, who celebrated Holi at Barsana in Mathura district - famous for its 'latthmaar holi' (where women hit men revellers with stick, who try to protect themselves with shields) - had made a similar remark in response to a query by a journalist a few days ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The chief minister also highlighted the achievements of his 11-month-old government in the state and said that it had been able to give a corruption-free governance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Not a single communal riot has taken place during this time," he claimed.</p>
<p class="bodytext">Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that he is a Hindu and does not celebrate Eid.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Speaking in the state Assembly, Adityanath also said his party would not "tolerate" attempts to break the country and would instead "break those who try to do so".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I am a Hindu... I don't celebrate Eid... I am proud of my culture," the chief minister said amid thumping of desks by the BJP members in the Assembly.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said that his government would extend every help to those who celebrated the festival of Eid. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Adityanath said the state government managed to persuade Muslims to defer Friday prayers by a few hours to enable Hindus to celebrate Holi, which also fell on the same day.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Adityanath, who celebrated Holi at Barsana in Mathura district - famous for its 'latthmaar holi' (where women hit men revellers with stick, who try to protect themselves with shields) - had made a similar remark in response to a query by a journalist a few days ago.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The chief minister also highlighted the achievements of his 11-month-old government in the state and said that it had been able to give a corruption-free governance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Not a single communal riot has taken place during this time," he claimed.</p>