Adityanath’s second tweet, claiming people being safe in Uttar Pradesh, seems even more outrageous.

A recent report on FactChecker.in showed that with 93 attacks as of 26 December, the year 2018 saw the most hate crime motivated by religious bias in India in a decade. Incidentally, Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of such attacks – as many as 27.

Another set of data put out by the same portal shows that since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in the state in March 2017, the state has recorded 69 percent of the country’s cases of bovine-related violence.