India, Oct. 30 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday charged RJD president Lalu Prasad with having committed a "sin" by arresting BJP patriarch Lal Krishna Advani, who had taken out the Ram Rath Yatra decades ago. The BJP leader made the remark on the campaign trail in Bihar, where he addressed three back-to-back rallies in the districts of Siwan, Bhojpur and Buxar.

Without mentioning Prasad by name, the then chief minister of Bihar, Adityanath, recalled the incident of 1990 in Samastipur, which the RJD supremo proudly claims while asserting his "secular" credentials. "The construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya wiped off the blot (kalank) that had mortified the nation for 500 years. But the RJD's men had committ...