India Questions New York Times’ ‘Wisdom’ In Criticising Yogi Adityanath As UP CM

PTI

India on Friday reacted sharply to The New York Times editorial criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s choice of Yogi Adityanath as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, and said the paper’s wisdom to write such a piece was “questionable”.

“All editorials or opinions are subjective. This case is particularly so. The wisdom in doubting the verdicts of genuine democratic exercises, at home or abroad, is questionable,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Gopal Baglay.

b’Source: The New York Times’

The NYT in the highly critical editorial, titled Modi’s Perilous Embrace of Hindu Extremists, said since he was elected in 2014, Modi has played a “cagey game, appeasing his party’s hard-line Hindu base while promoting secular goals of development and economic growth”.

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