Overview
- Uttar Pradesh BJP leaders said they will stage protests at district headquarters across the state over Ajendra Singh Lodhi’s comments on the prime minister.
- Mahoba police registered an FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after BJP district media in‑charge Satyendra Pratap Gupta complained that Lodhi called Narendra Modi anti‑national.
- A video shared on social media shows Lodhi using an expletive and calling Modi “desh‑virodhi” during a media interaction after Monday’s protest at the Mahoba collectorate.
- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath condemned the words as unparliamentary and an insult to democratic values.
- Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said the party rejects such language as Lodhi stayed defiant and BJP workers burned his effigy in Mahoba.