LUCKNOW, April 18 -- : Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said the Opposition's silence on incidents in Murshidabad and Bangladesh has exposed it.

"Those who built their political empires on corruption, casteism, mafia power and dynastic politics are now silent on Murshidabad. The same people who were involved in scams and built hotels in London using public money are the ones who looted the state and divided people along caste lines," the chief minister said. He was addressing a conclave organised by a media organisation in Lucknow.

He drew a comparison between the current situation in Murshidabad and what cities like Muzaffarnagar, Bareilly, Aligarh, and Lucknow used to face in the past.

"It is the same U.P. where riots happe...