Ramcharitmanas row: Hindu Mahasabha sends a letter in blood looking for motion towards Swami Prasad Maurya

The controversy across the burning of Ramcharitmanas has heated up once more as All India Hindu Mahasabha has reportedly despatched a letter addressed to the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath. In a letter not written with ink however blood, the Hindu rights group demanded motion towards Samajwadi Party chief Swami Prasad Maurya who not too long ago courted controversy over his derogatory remarks towards Ramcharitmanas. 

Vice President of the Madhya Pradesh unit of Hindu Mahasabha, Rambabu Sen issued a warning to accentuate the marketing campaign if immediate motion just isn’t taken towards the controversial Samajwadi Party chief. Reportedly, the letter was written utilizing blood. 

This is days after Samajwadi Party MLC Swami Prasad Maurya and 9 others have been booked for instigating folks to burn the pages of the Ramcharitmanas written by poet and saint Tulsidas within the Vrindavan Yojana of the PGI Kotwali space of Lucknow. The FIR was filed towards Maurya and 9 others by BJP chief Satnam Singh Lavi below numerous IPC sections, together with 142 (illegal meeting), 295 (defiling place of worship with intent to insult the faith), 153-A (selling enmity), 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts supposed to outrage non secular emotions), 506 (felony intimidation) amongst others.

The 9 different accused within the case have been recognized as Devendra Pratap Yadav, Yashpal Singh Lodhi, Satyendra Kushwaha, Mahendra Pratap Yadav, Sujit Yadav, Naresh Singh, SS Yadav, Santosh Verma, and Saleem. According to the reviews, the Police on Monday arrested 5 of the ten accused folks within the case.

It was earlier reported that on January 29, Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha burnt the copies of Ramcharitmanas written by poet and saint Tulsidas within the Vrindavan Yojana of the PGI Kotwali space of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The OBC Mahasabha members introduced their help to Samajwadi Party chief Swami Prasad Maurya who stirred controversy by saying that the Ramcharitmanas must be banned.

Copies of Shri Ramcharitmanas are being burnt Publically in Lucknow.

Slap each Samajwadi who cries for FoE since in the present day.

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Maurya, whereas talking to a information channel on January 22 claimed that sure parts of the Ramcharitmanas “insult” a big part of society on the premise of caste and demanded that these be “banned”. He mentioned that the ebook was written by Tulsidas for his personal pleasure and that it promotes social discrimination and unfold hatred.

Later on January 27, he additionally referred to as Hindu seers ‘Aatanki’, ‘Mahashaitan’, and ‘Jallad’. In a tweet posted on January 27 in Hindi, the SP chief wrote, “Recently, some religious contractors have declared a reward for those who cut my tongue and head; if someone else had said the same thing, the same contractor would have called him a terrorist, but now these saints, mahants, religious leaders, and caste-specific leaders have declared a reward for those who cut my tongue and head. What do you call such people aatanki, maha shaitan or jallads.”

On Tuesday, Samajwadi Party chief Lalji Patel prolonged help to Maurya and acknowledged that copies of Ramcharitmanas must be burnt because it fosters discrimination in society. “Ramcharitmanas is not a religious book. It is a book that creates a divide in society and insults backward caste people and Dalits. It should be burnt,” he mentioned.

He additionally appealed to folks belonging to the backward class and instigated them to burn copies of Ramcharitmanas on the Hindu competition of Holi. “This book is like any other novel and it is being wrongly used to propagate the Hindu religion. Tulsidas ji has just stated his opinion. He had written the book for his own pleasure. It is not a religious book. The copies of the said book should be burnt on the day of Holika. Only then will the backward-class people and Dalits get their rights,” Patel mentioned.

Notably, it isn’t solely Maurya or Lalji Patel who’ve demanded that the copies of Ramcharitmanas be burnt. Recently, on January 11, Bihar’s Education Minister Chandrashekhar mentioned that the Hindu scripture Ramcharitmanas must be burnt like Manusmruti as a result of it spreads hatred in society. He additionally mentioned that the ideas of the previous chief of RSS, Golwalkar Guruji are spreading hatred, creating discrimination within the society.