Lucknow, Aug. 14 -- As India marks Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath slammed the Congress, blaming the party for India's partition.

"Many of our country's revolutionaries and freedom fighters were hanged on the gallows. The freedom fighters of the country were subjected to inhuman tortures, but in 1947, when we gained independence, just a day before it, the Congress leadership, in the height of appeasement, had the country partitioned," Adityanath said in a press conference.

"The riots that erupted in undivided India (Just before India's partition) were among the worst atrocities in the world. In Western Pakistan, whether in Karachi or Lahore, there were systematic campaigns to eliminate Hin...