Facing Ire Over Remark On Hindu Epic, Bihar Minister Rakes Up UP CM House Issue

Facing flak for his debatable statement on epic “Ramcharitmanas”, defiant Bihar’s training minister Chandrashekhar on Thursday raked up the difficulty of purification rituals held on the Uttar Pradesh leader minister’s bungalow in 2017 as he doubled down on his in advance statement. Chandrashekar stated that the ones who “wiped clean the (CM) residence with ganga jal” were discriminating humans on the premise of caste for many years with the aid of using “bringing incorrect shloka-chaupai”.

During a speech at a college convocation, RJD chief Chandrashekhar, a third-time period MLA from Madhepura, stated that “Ramcharitmanas”, an epic poem composed with the aid of using sixteenth century poet Tulsidas, propagates social discrimination. To lower back his claim, the minister noted a couplet from Ramacharitmanas — ‘adham jati me vidya paye, bhayatu yatha dudh pilaye’, which, translated in English, means, “Lower caste humans come to be toxic upon getting training, like snake will become after ingesting milk”.

BJP latched on the difficulty and sought Chadrashekhar’s elimination from the cabinet. Leader of Opposition Vijay Kumar Singh demanded that a case be registered towards the minister for his utterances and that deputy CM Tejaswhi Prasad Yadav clean his stand on it.

Leader of Opposition withinside the Bihar Legislative Council, Samrat Choudharyof the BJP, stated that the minister wanted to “ be handled for intellectual imbalance”. “What he has executed is a shame for the whole state. Ram has been the binding pressure withinside the society. How can you can name him divisive? This is unfortunate,” he stated.

Chandrashekhar refused to apologise while he confronted ire from numerous quarters whilst leader minister Nitish Kumar pleaded lack of information at the matter. “I don’t understand what’s it about… I will discover from the minister,” Kumar informed newshounds in Madhubani.

When approached with the aid of using newshounds on Thursday for a reaction to the large complaint of his remarks, he stated, “I don’t want to apologise, as what I actually have stated is there for absolutely everyone to read. The BJP isn’t always privy to the information and is unnecessarily creating a hue and cry over it.”