A year-old media byte has come again to hang-out former Bihar CM and newly appointed Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi. Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Sanjay Raut has slammed the BJP-led NDA for appointing Manjhi as a Union minister over his feedback purportedly towards Lord Ram. In a submit on X, Sanjay Raut identified that Manjhi had as soon as referred to as Lord Ram legendary and requested the BJP if Raavan was higher than Ram.
— Sanjay Raut (@rautsanjay61) June 11, 2024
“Jitan Ram Manjhi, who referred to as Lord Ram imaginary, has been made a minister by Modi. We ask the BJP if it believes that Lord Ram is legendary. Is Ramayan a delusion? Was Raavan higher than Ram,” Sanjay Raut posted on X. Manjhi was handed the Cupboard portfolios of Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises on Monday.
Raut’s submit appeared to level to a 2023 media interplay of Jitan Ram Manjhi during which he could possibly be heard saying that Lord Ram is an imaginary character within the Ramayan and injustice had been meted out to Raavan. Manjhi was then a part of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, or Grand Alliance, in Bihar, then composed of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM), and the Congress and the Left. He sought to defend the then Bihar Schooling Minister Chandrashekhar, who had stirred up an issue in 2023 by likening the Ramchartmanas to poison.
This was met by extreme opposition by the BJP, which was within the Opposition then. BJP MPs sought to chant Hanuman Chalisa on the meeting ground. Responding to a query on this, Manjhi mentioned: “This isn’t proper… A decorum must be maintained within the meeting… Raavan was an mental. He was hardworking and had been wronged… Be it Ram or Raavan, I imagine each are fictitious. It is not proper to speak about creativeness. They need to speak about poverty and different issues.”
This man is former CM of Bihar
He has now mentioned that “Prabhu Ram is a legendary character. Ravana was extra discovered than Ram”
Irony is that there’s ‘Ram’ in his identify
Sure, his identify is Jitan ‘Ram’ Manjhi pic.twitter.com/QnYQW18PoI
— Mahesh Vikram Hegde 🇮🇳( Modi Ka Parivar ) (@mvmeet) March 18, 2023
“If we discuss in regards to the story [of Ramayan], Raavan was extra hardworking than Ram… The story is imaginary,” Jitan Ram Manjhi could possibly be heard saying within the byte.
After the Opposition bloc was shaped, Jitan Ram Manjhi give up the Opposition alliance, of which Nitish Kumar was additionally a component. Quickly after HAM’s exit, Nitish accused him of “spying” on the Oppposition for the BJP and termed his exit as “good riddance”. Nevertheless, Nitish himself give up the Opposition alliance a couple of months later and joined the BJP-led NDA as did Manjhi.