Agra: A day after Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Swami Prasad Maurya alleged that some verses of the Ramcharitmanas promoted social discrimination, a local leader of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha on Monday offered Rs 51,000 to anyone who chopped off his tongue. Award announced. , Maurya, who is considered a prominent OBC leader in Uttar Pradesh, had called certain passages of the Ramcharitmanas an “insult” to a large section of society on the basis of caste and demanded that these be “banned”.
“Any courageous person, if he cuts off the tongue of SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya, he will be given a check of Rs 51,000. They have insulted our religious text and hurt the sentiments of Hindus,” said Saurabh Sharma, district in-charge of the Mahasabha. Members of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) took out a symbolic procession of Maurya, burnt his effigy and threw it into the Yamuna river.
Speaking to PTI, ABHM national spokesperson Sanjay Jat said, “We object to the derogatory remarks made by SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya.” “When the former cabinet minister was in BSP, he used to say Jai Bhim, Jai Bharat and when he came to BJP, he started respecting Ramcharitmanas and now when he has joined Samajwadi Party, he has given an objectionable statement. Comment against Ramcharitmanas,” he said.
“We protested against his remarks and took out a mock funeral procession of the SP leader and later burnt his effigy and threw it into the Yamuna at Rambagh,” the Jat said. Maurya, a member of the Legislative Council in Uttar Pradesh, said that “there are some lines (in the Ramcharitmanas) which mention the names of castes like ‘Teli’ and ‘Kumhar'” and that “the sentiments of millions of people belonging to these castes have been hurt”. Has happened “.