Not Dalit or Jain, this BJP leader says Lord Hanuman was a Muslim
Adityanath had said, "Hanuman was a forest dweller, deprived and a Dalit"
BJP MP Savitribai Phule on December 4 said Lord Hanuman was a slave to manuvadi people
A Jain priest in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, claimed Lord Hanuman was neither a Dalit nor a tribal, but a Jain
New Delhi, Dec 20: Lord Hanuman would never have been remembered by the Indians as much as now - in the run up to the general election next year. What began as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath suggesting the deity was a deprived and probably, a Dalit has now snowballed into a saga of unending innuendos.
A certain Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has now said that Lord Hanuman was a Muslim.
"Humaara maanna hai ki Hanumanji musalmaan thhay. Issliye musalmaanon mein naam rakha jaata hai Rehman, Ramzam, Farman, Zeeshan, Qurbaan. Saare naam kareeb kareeb unke naam se miltey hain [We believe Lord Hanuman was a Muslim. That's why all the Muslim names are derived from his name]," BJP MLC Bukkal Nawab was quoted as saying by ANI.
This is the third religious identity given to Lord Hanuman ever since Adityanath did the honour.
Adityanath had, during a poll rally in Malakheda of Alwar district last month, said, "Hanuman was a forest dweller, deprived and a Dalit. Bajrang Bali worked to connect all Indian communities together, from north to south and east to west."
BJP MP Savitribai Phule on December 4 said Lord Hanuman was a Dalit and slave to manuwadi people. Manuvad comes from the term Manuvada, which denotes the culture of a society governed by Manusmriti code of conduct for human society.
Lord Hanuman was a Dalit and a slave of 'manuwadi' people. He was a Dalit and a human. He did all for Lord Ram then why he was given a tail and his face was blackened, she said.
By claiming that Hanuman as a slave to manuwadi people, Phule took a step ahead of Adityanath and referred to him as a tribal.
Rajasthan Sarv Brahmin Mahasabha president Suresh Mishra then sent a notice to Adityanath, accusing him of dragging Lord Hanuman's caste for political gain for the BJP in the then poll-bound state.
Following this, a Jain priest in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, claimed Lord Hanuman was neither a Dalit nor a tribal, but a Jain.
Aacharya Nirbhay Sagar Maharaj, who heads a Jain temple in Samasgarh, nearly 25 km from Bhopal, said according to Jain scriptures, Lord Hanuman was a Jain. He was part of the 169 great persons identified in Jainism.
The Congress party even launched a salvo at the BJP through a poster.
The poster was divided into three parts, out of which the second part showed Lord Hanuman coming out of the BJP office, which issues caste certificates, with -- wait for it -- a Dalit certificate.
And with Nawab's recent statement, it looks like this indigenous battle of dividing Gods and Goddesses on the basis of castes is not going to end any time soon. It will only be furthered.
#WATCH: BJP MLC Bukkal Nawab says "Hamara man'na hai Hanuman ji Muslaman theyy, isliye Musalmanon ke andar jo naam rakha jata hai Rehman, Ramzan, Farman, Zishan, Qurban jitne bhi naam rakhe jaate hain wo karib karib unhi par rakhe jaate hain." pic.twitter.com/1CoBIl4fPv
— ANI (@ANI) December 20, 2018
Courtesy: www.indiatoday.in
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Chakankar's resignation forwarded to CM Fadnavis, says Sunetra Pawar
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Mumbai (PTI): NCP chief and Maharashtra deputy CM Sunetra Pawar on Saturday said she has forwarded Rupali Chakankar's resignation as state women's commission chairperson to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for acceptance.
Chakankar, a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, on Friday tendered her resignation after facing flak from opposition parties over her association with rape-accused 'godman' Ashok Kharat.
Following a meeting with CM Fadnavis, who asked her to step down, she handed the resignation letter personally to Sunetra Pawar late in the evening.
"Chakankar has tendered her resignation considering the current circumstances and ongoing investigation. To ensure that the probe is conducted in a fair and transparent manner, I have forwarded her resignation to the Chief Minister for further process," Pawar said in a statement.
Appointed as chairperson of the Maharashtra State Women's Commission first in October 2021, Chakankar was given another three-year term in 2024.
Kharat, who heads a temple trust at Sinnar and had several political leaders visit him over the years, was arrested by Nashik Police on Wednesday for allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman.
As per the complainant, he called her to his office sometime in 2022 after her marriage, claiming that his astrological predictions point to a threat to her husband’s life and she needed to perform certain rituals to ward it off. He then gave her a sedative-laced drink and raped her, the woman alleged, claiming that he raped her multiple times over the next three years.
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