‘Women are tortured, it’s Adharma, not Dharma’: Swami Prasad Maurya rants in opposition to Hinduism

Swami Prasad Maurya, the controversial chief of the Samajwadi Party recognized for his anti-Hindu rants has as soon as once more spewed venom in opposition to Hinduism. On Wednesday, February 22, Swami Prasad Maurya said that on one one hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi is operating ladies empowerment programmes on the opposite why the so-called Hindus who worship ladies in the course of the time of Navratri discuss insulting and tormenting ladies. 

“Under the garb of Dharma, why do they talk about humiliating, assaulting, and torturing the whole Shudra community? PM Modi runs women empowerment campaigns, the so-called Hindus who worship the woman-power in the form of Devis (Goddesses). Why is it said that women should be tortured while we worship women-power (nari shakti) and the government runs women empowerment campaigns? Half of the country’s population is comprised of women even then if women have to face all this, then it is not Dharma but ‘Adharma’, injustice and atrocity on women,” Maurya stated whereas talking at an occasion. 

SP chief Swami Prasad Maurya once more questions hindu faith and beliefs, says

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Maurya went on to say assert that how can abuses be hurled at ladies when at present they’ve been given equal rights. Maurya quoted a Chaupai (verse) from the Tulsidas authored Ramcharitmanas “Je varnadham teli kumhara swapach kirat kol kalwara.” 

“Have you ever seen a Dharma where its own followers are called low-castes, Adharm.” Maurya as soon as once more misinterpreted the Chaupais like ‘dhol gawar shudra…’ of the Ramcharitmanas. 

Furthermore, Maurya claimed that the Gita Press publication did a correction within the ‘dhol gawker shudra pashu nari sakal taadna ke adhikari’ chaupai and claimed that Gita Press which isn’t the creator of the guide however solely a writer has stated that ‘taadna’ on this verse means ‘educating’ and never ‘assaulting’.

This isn’t the primary time that the Samajwadi Party chief has expressed his Hindu-hate. In January this yr, Maurya stirred an argument after he insulted Hindu saints and seers by dubbing them ‘Aatanki’ and ‘Jallad’. Previously, the SP chief drew criticism for demanding a ban on Ramcharitmanas claiming that sure verses ‘insult’ a big part of society.

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, mahashaitan or jallads.”

On January 22, Maurya, whereas chatting with a information channel, stated that Ramcharitamanas, written by Goswami Tulsidas within the seventeenth century, promoted social discrimination and unfold hatred. “Religion is meant for the welfare of humanity and for strengthening it. If there is any insult to a section of society due to certain lines in the Ramcharitamanas on the basis of ‘jaati’, ‘varn’ and ‘varg’, then it is certainly not ‘dharma’, it is ‘adharma’. There are certain lines in which names of castes such as ‘teli’ and ‘kumhaar’ are mentioned,” stated the SP chief. He added Tulsidas wrote the guide for his personal pleasure whereas demanding a ban on the “objectionable portions” of the Ramcharitmanas.

A case has been registered in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh in opposition to Samajwadi Party chief Swami Prasad Maurya and eight others for hurting spiritual sentiments and disturbing social concord over his controversial remarks in opposition to Ramcharitmanas. Acting on a criticism of Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha workplace bearer Praveen Chaudhary, the case was registered on the Gwalior Crime Branch police station earlier this month. The case was registered underneath IPC sections 153A and 295 on the Gwalior Crime Branch police station.