Wearing less clothes doesn’t make one great: UP Speaker

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit said on Sunday that if one can become great by wearing less clothes, then Bollywood The actor “Rakhi Sawant would have been bigger than Mahatma Gandhi”, was drawing criticism from social media users. He made the remarks at the ‘Prabuddha Varg Sammelan’ (meeting of intellectuals) organized by the BJP in the Bangarmau assembly constituency of Unnao district. We are of the opinion that one does not become an intellectual by writing a book on any subject. If this is the case for so many years, I have read at least 6,000 books.” He added, “Gandhiji used to wear less clothes. He used to wrap only dhoti. The country calls him Bapu. If one can become great just by taking off his clothes. If so, then Rakhi Sawant becomes older than Mahatma Gandhi.” A video clipping of his speech went viral on social media, following which he put out a series of explanatory tweets in Hindi. “Some friends in social media are showing the clip of the video of my speech with a different meaning. It was part of my speech at ‘Prabuddha Sammelan’ in Unnao, in which the moderator of ‘Sammelan’ introduced me saying ‘ I am an enlightened writer.” “I took this point further by saying that writing a few books does not make an intellectual. Mahatma Gandhi used to wear less clothes. The country used to call him ‘Bapu’. But, it does not mean that Rakhi Sawant will become Gandhiji. “