Lucknow, Oct. 16 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday launched a scathing attack on opposition parties, asserting that in a democracy the path to power flows strictly from the mandate of the electorate rather than street chaos, while cautioning against attempts to engineer "Bangladesh-style" political upheavals in India.

In a post on social media platform X, the Chief Minister said, "In a democracy, the path to power flows from the mandate of the people, not from chaos. Forces dreaming of a change of power in India on the lines of Bangladesh want to place the tools of anarchy in the hands of the youth instead of the torch of nation-building."

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