New Delhi. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, accepting SP chief Akhilesh Yadav's challenge to contest elections from Ayodhya, has said that Akhilesh ji, I offer you, come, you also file nomination in Ayodhya and I do too, let's try our luck once. Once it is decided, you also come and I also come. Why fight with the disciples, the fight should be fought face to face, that is why I am asking you also to come. Yogi said that Ayodhya is our holy place. Ayodhya is the place of our faith. Not to contest elections, I go there again and again for the overall development of Ayodhya.
Akhilesh ji, I offer you. Come, you also enroll in Shri Ayodhya Dham and I also do…
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) October 10, 2026
Taking a dig at Akhilesh Yadav, Yogi said, those who rub their nose in front of the mafia, who read Fatiha on the graves of professional criminals on their death, how will they be able to fight with us, they do not have the courage. The public has already dismissed them. The condition of these people has become like that of 'a grumpy cat scratching a pillar'. The representatives elected by the people have decided what the result of the assembly elections is going to be. BJP and NDA will win 80 percent seats, even if the remaining 20 percent goes to them.
Discussing the development of Ayodhya, Yogi Adityanath said that today the elders of Samajwadi Party have gone mad. They do not see development, they do not even have the ability to see it. Ayodhya which used to get electricity for three to four hours during the tenure of SP. The Ayodhya which was immersed in a heap of filth, the Ayodhya in which the SP government had imposed a ban on chanting Jai Shri Ram, the Ayodhya in which only and only barriers were erected, that Ayodhya is once again becoming a new example of Ramrajya and reminding us of Treta Yug.