The All India Hindu Mahasabha wrote to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath demanding action against Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya over his remarks against Ramcharitmanas.
Rambabu Sen, the vice president of Madhya Pradesh unit of Hindu Mahasabha, warned to intensify the movement if immediate action is not taken against the SP leader. The letter was reportedly written using blood.
The SP leader has come under sharp criticism for saying that certain portions of Ramcharitmanas, a popular version of the Ramayana penned by poet Tulsidas, “insult” a large section of society on the basis of caste, adding that these be banned.
Earlier, a local leader of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha announced Rs 51,000 as reward to anyone who would “cut off” Maurya’s tongue.
“Any courageous person, if they cut off the tongue of SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya, would be rewarded with a Rs 51,000 cheque. He has insulted our religious text and hurted the sentiments of Hindus,” the mahasabha’s district in-charge Saurabh Sharma had said, PTI reported.
The mahant of Ayodha’s Hanumangarhi temple also announced that he will give Rs 21 lakh to anyone who “beheads” the Samajwadi Party leader
Maurya, a prominent OBC leader in Uttar Pradesh, had said that “there are certain lines (in the Ramcharitmanas) in which names of castes such as ‘teli’ and ‘kumhaar’ are mentioned” and because of these “the feelings of lakhs of people hailing from these castes have been hurt”
He said that “the objectionable portions” of the Ramcharitmanas that “insult on the basis of jaati, varn and varg” should be banned.
