Lord Hanuman was a tribal not Dalit: NCST Chief Nand Kumar Sai
LUCKNOW, Nov 30: Two days after UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath whipped up a controversy when he allegedly said that Lord Hanuman was a Dalit, the chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes added fuel to the fire by claiming that Hanuman was a ‘ gotra’ among tribals, and that he was therefore not a Dalit.
“There is a Hanuman gotra among tribals, like there is ‘Giddha’ gotra or ‘Reechh’. There is a ‘Tigga’ gotra as well in which ‘Tigga’ means ‘vanar’ or monkey. There are various tribal communities and separate gotras. These, like the ‘Garud’ and ‘Reechh’ were part of Lord Ram’s army when he went to war. Hanuman was definitely not a Dalit,” said Nand Kumar Sai, the commission chairperson.
Sai had earlier refused to wade into the controversy, saying that politicians were given to making statements at political rallies and the CM would have to specify the context in which he called Hanuman a Dalit. On Tuesday, while addressing an election rally in Rajasthan, the CM had reportedly called Hanuman a Dalit, a charge which has since been denied by UP government.
Courtesy: timesofindia
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Double-decker electric bus gutted in fire at Kurla BEST depot
Mumbai (PTI): An empty double-decker electric bus was gutted in a fire during servicing at a BEST depot in Mumbai's Kurla area on Sunday, officials said, adding that nobody was injured.
The blaze broke out inside the Kurla BEST bus depot near Kanakia Building at 4.14 pm, according to preliminary information from the Mumbai Fire Brigade.
The parked bus was unoccupied at the time of the incident.
Fire brigade personnel rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control. The exact cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, they said.
No injuries were reported in the incident, officials added.
The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking has hired 50 electric double-decker buses from Switch Mobility in its fleet of around 2,700 buses.
