Reacting over the clashes between demonstrators and police in Bareilly on Friday (September 26, 2025), Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday (September 27, 2025) said that the Maulana (cleric) in Bareilly forgot whose government is in the State and that “we will teach a lesson so strong that generations will forget to riot”.

The police have arrested the cleric, Tauqeer Raza Khan , who is the chief of Ittehad-e-Millat Council, and seven others after there was a violent clash between the police and people who protested against the police action against those who carried “I Love Muhammed” posters during an Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi procession in Kanpur on September 4. Mr. Khan had given the call for protest.

“The Maulana in Bareilly seemed to have forgotten whose government

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