UP Election 2022: BJP's 'just a child' retort to Jayant Chaudhary's 'chawanni' rebuke

Days after Jayant Chaudhary's terse "I am not a chawanni, won't flip" response to the BJP's overtures, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the RLD chief was a "kid with little knowledge of history".

He has forgotten how many times his father, late Ajit Singh, changed sides, said Pradhan, who is also the BJP's Uttar Pradesh poll in-charge.

Led by former prime minister Charan Singh's grandson Jayant Chaudhary, the RLD has joined hands with Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party this time.

Union Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday reached out to Jat leaders, ahead of the first phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh, and said that Jayant Chaudhary has chosen the "wrong home".

The BJP's outreach is significant as there are apprehensions that the over year-long farmers' agitation against the three agri laws, which have since been repealed, will affect its prospects.

However, the RLD leader gave a terse response. "Invite those +700 farmer families which you have destroyed, not me," he tweeted in Hindi. "Not a coin, won't flip," Chaudhary had said later.