India, Jan. 26 -- Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath revealed the meaning behind his controversial slogan 'batenge toh katenge', saying that he raised the slogan after some people objected to a statue of a mediaeval general belonging to the 'teli caste' in Agra.

In an interview with News18, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that he had unveiled the statue during the Haryana elections and it was there that he gave the slogan.

"During the Haryana elections, I visited Mathura and had the opportunity to unveil the statue of Durga Das Rathore in Agra. In the medieval era, Durgadas Rathore was a very valiant general of the Jodhpur king Maharaja Jaswant Singh. Rathore protected the family of the king when he was martyred in Aurangzeb's dece...