Uma Bharti troubled me a lot during Ayodhya, recounts Mulayam

Bharti, seated in the front row of the Treasury benches, smiled back, but did not reply.

Yadav said that he acted smarter than her, leading to her arrest. “Communalism is very dangerous for the country. Today, there is communalism over minor issues,” he added.

Referring to incidents in Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur, the former UP CM went on to say that there were political leaders who were calling even a dispute between two boys a riot. Yadav then claimed credit for having defused the tension in both places promptly.

Constantly gesturing towards the BJP leaders for stoking communal tension in the country, Yadav drew ire from the Treasury benches.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh was supposed to reply to the debate but could not as he was indisposed.