UP CM Adityanath refuses to wear fur-cap at Kabir mausoleum
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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath refused to wear a cap offered to him at the mausoleum of Sant Kabir Das in Sant Kabir Nagar in Uttar Pradesh.
The CM was in Sant Kabir Nagar yesterday evening to oversee preparations for the PM's visit to the mausoleum of the mystic poet and was offered a fur-cap by Khadim Hussain, the caretaker, which he politely refused.
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Yogi, however, agreed to keep the cap
"As per tradition I offered the cap to Chief Minster Yogi Adityanath when he visited the mausoleum of Kabir saheb but he politely refused," Hussain said.
He said however, Adityanath agreed to keep the cap.
In 2011, then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had refused to wear a skullcap offered to him by a cleric during a fast for social harmony in Ahmedabad.
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Here's how Adityanath politely refused to wear the cap
#WATCH: UP CM Yogi Adityanath refuses to wear karakul cap offered to him at Sant Kabir's Mazar in Maghar. (27.06.2018) pic.twitter.com/MYb9Mar3WP
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) June 28, 2018