PATNA: Senior RJD chief and Bihar Education Minister Prof Chandrashekhar has as soon as once more stirred controversy by alleging that Ramcharitmanas, an epic poem within the Awadhi language, has some dust that must be eliminated. He reiterated that Ramcharitmanas, composed by Indian Bhakti poet Goswami Tulsidas, created divisions in society. The Bihar RJD chief had final month sparked an argument by saying that a number of dohas (couplets) of Ramcharitmanas have been spreading hatred and creating discrepancies in society. “Ramcharitmanas is a curse on the society as instead of connecting the society, it is breaking it,” he had stated whereas addressing the fifteenth convocation ceremony of Nalanda Open University.
The RJD chief stated that Ramcharitmanas even advocated for stopping Dalits, backwards and girls from training but additionally for maintaining them disadvantaged of their rights. “Manusmriti has sowed the seed of hatred in the society,” the minister stated including that former RSS chief MS Golwarkar’s ideas have been spreading hatred within the society. He additionally stated that Dr. BR Ambedkar had burnt ‘Manusmriti’ because it backed the snatching of the rights of Dalits and disadvantaged sections of the society.
Sticking to his stand on Ramcharitmanas, Chandrashekhar opined that India may turn into sturdy and affluent by selling love and affection amongst numerous sections of society. Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has additionally stated that he’s not towards Ramcharitmanas however asserted that the controversy over a sure verse of the Hindu epic is “5,000 years old”.
During the funds dialogue in Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Yadav stated, “We are not against Ramcharitmanas. Why do you do ‘prachar’. God is for all and not for anyone (person). You take donations (for the construction of Ram temple) so has God become yours. But whatever is wrong is wrong.”
Mentioning the phrase ‘tadan’ in one of many verses of Ramcharitmanas, he stated, “If you make one person stand to know what is the meaning of ‘tadan’, then we can also make 10 stand about this. Will you make anyone stand up and explain the meaning of ‘tadan’? You tell what the situation is in UP.”
While reciting a poem by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar on the difficulty, Yadav stated, “This fight is not of today. This fight is 5,000 years old.” “I did not ask about Ramcharitmanas. I had said that the Leader of the House should tell what is a ‘Shudra’. If this ‘Shudra’ does not become your shield, then you could not have come to power.”
Yadav was mentioning a verse “Dhol, ganwar, shudra, pashu, naari, sakal tadan ke adhikari” on which an argument erupted final month after SP chief Swami Prasad Maurya alleged that sure verses of the Ramcharitmanas ‘insult’ a big part of society on the premise of caste and demanded that these be ‘banned.’
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday accused Samajwadi Party of humiliating 100 crore Hindus by burning a replica of Ramcharitmanas. CM Adityanath, explaining the verse, which was described as objectionable by SP chief Maurya, had stated that ‘tadan’ meant ‘dekhbhal’ (caring).
