BJP identifies Hinduism with Brahminism, ignores 90% of India: SP’s Swami Prasad Maurya

By PTI

LUCKNOW: The BJP considers “Brahmin religion”, which is adopted by solely 10 per cent of the individuals, as “Hindu religion” and there exists nothing like “Hindu religion”, Samajwadi Party chief Swami Prasad Maurya has stated.

Maurya stated the social gathering doesn’t contemplate tribals, Dalits, and different backward lessons, who kind nearly all of Indians, as Hindus, and characterises the complete faith solely with Brahmins.

In an interview with PTI, the politician additionally known as the ruling BJP-led NDA, a “Non-Democratic Alliance”, as he exuded confidence that the opposition bloc’s INDIA will ship a defeat to the two-time Narendra Modi authorities on the Centre within the coming common election.

“On Saturday, I was attending a ‘samajik nyay sammelan’ organised by the party in Azamgarh. The religion, the BJP cites, there is nothing called Hindu religion. They consider Brahmin religion as the Hindu religion,” Maurya advised PTI over the telephone.

“When they do not consider the tribals, Dalits, and backwards as Hindus, who constitute 90 per cent of the population, then with only 10 per cent people’s statement, will it become Hindu religion? This is Brahmin religion, and in order to maintain the supremacy of their religion, they despicably insult the tribals, the Dalits and the backwards,” he stated.

Maurya had defected from the BJP and joined the SP in 2022, a month forward of the UP meeting elections.

The chief had final Sunday too accused the BJP of stoking communal sentiments with its assist to the Gyanvapi mosque problem.

“They are looking for a temple in every mosque. This will cost them dearly. Because if they look for a temple in every mosque then people will start searching for a Buddhist monastery in every temple,” Maurya had advised reporters earlier in Lucknow.

When he was requested about how the INDIA, the opposition alliance, will likely be totally different from different regional alliances fashioned to defeat the BJP prior to now, Maurya asserted the alliance will likely be totally different in that it’s going to consolidate votes, which in any other case used to go to totally different events.

“The BJP used to come to power with 40-42 per cent of the votes. The rest of the 60 per cent votes of the opposition used to split among different platforms. With the formation of INDIA, the votes will consolidate on a single platform,” he stated.

“Whenever alliances are made at the national level, be it Janata Party or Janata Dal, both of them were successful, and both had uprooted the then governments. The INDIA alliance will uproot BJP from power. To save the country, Constitution, democracy, and reservation, and to conduct a caste survey, a farewell needs to be given to the BJP in the 2024 general elections,” he added.

Maurya additionally responded to the BJP’s comparability of INDIA with the East India Company, the British conglomerate that when overwhelmed Indian commerce, paving the best way for the British Raj.

“A number of their schemes are named after India — Make in India, Start-Up India, Digital India. If they say that the name of the Opposition’s platform is taken from Indian Mujahideen and East India Company, then Modiji should answer from where he took ‘India’ that he uses in his schemes?” he stated.

On the Supreme Court keep on the conviction of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case, Maurya stated that the order was a “victory of democracy” and it has elevated the religion of the general public within the judiciary.

On Om Prakash Rajbhar-led SBSP becoming a member of the NDA, Maurya requested, “Have the allegations, which he (Rajbhar) had levelled against the BJP, been washed away?” Maurya stated barring Dara Singh Chauhan, the SP MLA who had lately resigned as MLA and joined the BJP, all BJP leaders who had left the saffron social gathering earlier than the 2022 Assembly elections together with him, are nonetheless with the SP.

“People who compromise with the interests of their community for power, are punished by their community.”

Maurya stated the opposition bloc goals to win 45-50 seats from UP and confine the BJP to 30-35 seats.

On an announcement lately made by his daughter – BJP Lok Sabha MP Sanghamitra Maurya – that she would attempt to deliver her father again into the BJP fold, he stated his daughter was nonetheless a greenhorn in politics and is aware of little about her personal father.

“She is still a kid in politics – whatever she said, it is her childishness,” Maurya stated.

LUCKNOW: The BJP considers “Brahmin religion”, which is adopted by solely 10 per cent of the individuals, as “Hindu religion” and there exists nothing like “Hindu religion”, Samajwadi Party chief Swami Prasad Maurya has stated.

Maurya stated the social gathering doesn’t contemplate tribals, Dalits, and different backward lessons, who kind nearly all of Indians, as Hindus, and characterises the complete faith solely with Brahmins.

In an interview with PTI, the politician additionally known as the ruling BJP-led NDA, a “Non-Democratic Alliance”, as he exuded confidence that the opposition bloc’s INDIA will ship a defeat to the two-time Narendra Modi authorities on the Centre within the coming common election.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“On Saturday, I was attending a ‘samajik nyay sammelan’ organised by the party in Azamgarh. The religion, the BJP cites, there is nothing called Hindu religion. They consider Brahmin religion as the Hindu religion,” Maurya advised PTI over the telephone.

“When they do not consider the tribals, Dalits, and backwards as Hindus, who constitute 90 per cent of the population, then with only 10 per cent people’s statement, will it become Hindu religion? This is Brahmin religion, and in order to maintain the supremacy of their religion, they despicably insult the tribals, the Dalits and the backwards,” he stated.

Maurya had defected from the BJP and joined the SP in 2022, a month forward of the UP meeting elections.

The chief had final Sunday too accused the BJP of stoking communal sentiments with its assist to the Gyanvapi mosque problem.

“They are looking for a temple in every mosque. This will cost them dearly. Because if they look for a temple in every mosque then people will start searching for a Buddhist monastery in every temple,” Maurya had advised reporters earlier in Lucknow.

When he was requested about how the INDIA, the opposition alliance, will likely be totally different from different regional alliances fashioned to defeat the BJP prior to now, Maurya asserted the alliance will likely be totally different in that it’s going to consolidate votes, which in any other case used to go to totally different events.

“The BJP used to come to power with 40-42 per cent of the votes. The rest of the 60 per cent votes of the opposition used to split among different platforms. With the formation of INDIA, the votes will consolidate on a single platform,” he stated.

“Whenever alliances are made at the national level, be it Janata Party or Janata Dal, both of them were successful, and both had uprooted the then governments. The INDIA alliance will uproot BJP from power. To save the country, Constitution, democracy, and reservation, and to conduct a caste survey, a farewell needs to be given to the BJP in the 2024 general elections,” he added.

Maurya additionally responded to the BJP’s comparability of INDIA with the East India Company, the British conglomerate that when overwhelmed Indian commerce, paving the best way for the British Raj.

“A number of their schemes are named after India — Make in India, Start-Up India, Digital India. If they say that the name of the Opposition’s platform is taken from Indian Mujahideen and East India Company, then Modiji should answer from where he took ‘India’ that he uses in his schemes?” he stated.

On the Supreme Court keep on the conviction of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case, Maurya stated that the order was a “victory of democracy” and it has elevated the religion of the general public within the judiciary.

On Om Prakash Rajbhar-led SBSP becoming a member of the NDA, Maurya requested, “Have the allegations, which he (Rajbhar) had levelled against the BJP, been washed away?” Maurya stated barring Dara Singh Chauhan, the SP MLA who had lately resigned as MLA and joined the BJP, all BJP leaders who had left the saffron social gathering earlier than the 2022 Assembly elections together with him, are nonetheless with the SP.

“People who compromise with the interests of their community for power, are punished by their community.”

Maurya stated the opposition bloc goals to win 45-50 seats from UP and confine the BJP to 30-35 seats.

On an announcement lately made by his daughter – BJP Lok Sabha MP Sanghamitra Maurya – that she would attempt to deliver her father again into the BJP fold, he stated his daughter was nonetheless a greenhorn in politics and is aware of little about her personal father.

“She is still a kid in politics – whatever she said, it is her childishness,” Maurya stated.