Swami Prasad Maurya, the chief of the Samajwadi Get together, has questioned how Goddess Lakshmi can have 4 fingers, sparking outrage and a censure from his personal get together, whose spokesperson has requested him to “cease harming” the SP, information company PTI reported. Beforehand, the chief grabbed information for his divisive statements on Ramcharitmanas and the Badrinath temple. Each Congress and BJP took concern with the comment. Maurya claimed in a put up on X on Sunday that he honoured his spouse on Diwali since she is a “Devi” in each facet.
“… each youngster born in each faith, caste, race, color and nation of the entire world has two fingers, two legs, two ears, two eyes and a nostril with two holes. There is just one head, abdomen and again; if a toddler with 4 fingers, eight fingers, ten fingers, twenty fingers and a thousand fingers has not been born until date, then how can Lakshmi be born with 4 fingers?” Maurya stated in a put up on X.
“If you wish to worship Goddess Lakshmi, then worship and respect your spouse who’s a goddess in true sense as a result of she fulfils the duty of nurturing, happiness, prosperity, meals and care of your loved ones with nice devotion,” learn his put up.
दीपोत्सव के अवसर पर अपनी पत्नी का पूजा व सम्मान करते हुए कहा कि पूरे विश्व के प्रत्येक धर्म, जाति, नस्ल, रंग व देश में पैदा होने वाले बच्चे के दो हाथ, दो पैर, दो कान, दो आंख, दो छिद्रों वाली नाक के साथ एक सिर, पेट व पीठ ही होती है, चार हाथ,आठ हाथ, दस हाथ, बीस हाथ व हजार हाथ वाला… pic.twitter.com/CP5AjKODfq
— Swami Prasad Maurya (@SwamiPMaurya) November 12, 2023
With a transparent distaste for what he said, SP spokesperson IP Singh requested him to give up inflicting hurt to the get together.
He said that the get together doesn’t agree with Maurya’s statements, which he described as his “private views.”
“If you had been a cupboard minister in BJP for five years, you had been afraid of creating indecent feedback on Goddess Lakshmi ji and Lord Ganesha,” he stated on X.
“Your daughter is an MP from Badaun, she calls herself Sanatani and by no means misses any puja. Not less than you may have defined (all this) to your son and daughter. Cease harming the get together,” he stated.
Sanghamitra Maurya, Maurya’s daughter, is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Get together.
“The Samajwadi Get together respects all religions. Mainpuri’s MP sister @dimpleyadav ji has returned after visiting Baba Kedarnath ji on Nov 5. Samajwadi Get together has full religion in Hindu faith,” Singh added.
On Monday, Congress chief Acharya Pramod Krishnam stated Maurya’s phrases seem like a part of a plan to undermine sanatan dharma.
“… he has been constantly giving statements which have harm the sentiment of the Hindus. Seeing and listening to his assertion, it appears that he’s focusing on Sanatan Dharm as a part of some agenda,” Krishnam informed PTI.
“… he ought to apologise for this. I urge Yogi Adityanath ji to impose a ban on statements of Swami Prasad Maurya and his speech. It appears that evidently Swami Prasad Maurya has taken a ‘supari’ to complete off the SP,” he added.
Taking to X, BJP’s nationwide spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia stated: “Hurts Hindu sentiments. He’s decided to take down Akhilesh Yadav. This can be a demon in a human physique. Akhilesh Yadav is silent. Is all this occurring solely on his orders?” On Monday, Maurya said that this was not the primary time he had spoken such a factor, and that he had additionally stated it final Diwali.
“I consider everybody has the liberty to have fun festivals. I’m of the view that in true sense, the housewife is the Goddess Lakshmi of the home. Our tradition additionally says the place girls are revered, there may be happiness and prosperity, that house is a heaven, that’s the place nice individuals reside,” he informed PTI.
“If the Lakshmi of the home is the housewife, then worship her, respect her, give her significance. This can enhance the respect of ladies not solely in India, however all around the world,” he stated.
Maurya said that he had not supposed to offend anybody together with his assertion.
On X, he stated: “I’ve solely carried out what’s sensible, true, scientific, and everlasting. I respect Sanatan. And, I stand by what I wrote on X. I wrote it Thoughtfully.”
Maurya, a well-known OBC politician in Uttar Pradesh who resigned from the BJP quickly earlier than the 2022 Meeting elections, has beforehand sparked controversy by remarking on Ramcharitmanas and Hindu shrines.
The BJP regards “Brahmin faith,” which is practised by simply 10% of the inhabitants, as “Hindu faith,” but “Hindu faith” doesn’t exist, he beforehand said.
Earlier this yr, the SP chief sparked one other controversy by alleging that some traces of the Hindu traditional Ramcharitmanas “insult” a giant phase of society.
He additionally believed that Badrinath was a Buddhist monastery earlier than turning into a Hindu pilgrimage place within the seventh century.