RJD leaders alleged anti-Hindu temple posters in Patna, spark controversy. | Image:ANI
After the anti-Sanatan rhetoric, another controversy appears to have gripped Bihar ahead of the consecration ceremony in Ayodhya’s Ram Temple on January 22. The controversy is over the putting of posters, reportedly put by the INDI Alliance party, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), outside the house of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in Patna. In the posters ‘temple’ has been allegedly described as a symbol of ‘mental slavery’.
According to the information, these posters, having images of Lalu Yadav, Rabri Devi and Tejashwi Yadav, also have Savitribai Phule’s statement. In the poster, it has been written in hindi, stating, “When the temple bell rings, it gives us a message that we are moving towards superstition, hypocrisy, stupidity and ignorance.”
Posters are reportedly put outside RJD supremo Lalu Yadav’s residence in Patna
It is being alleged that the poster has anti-Hindu comments, which is an insult to Sanatan Dharma. Reportedly these posters have been installed by RJD MLA Fateh Bahadur Singh, whose image is also there in the poster.
Bihar Minister Tej Pratap Yadav, while talking to media personnel in Patna on Monday, said that Lord Ram will come home only when the flag of INDI Alliance is hoisted at the Centre. He was responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to celebrate Deepotsav on January 22.
Meanwhile, these posters have sparked another political outrage in the state, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coming out all guns blazing at the RJD and opposition’s INDI Alliance parties.
The BJP has called it an insult to Sanatan Dharma.
BJP lashes INDI Alliance
A BJP leader on Monday said that before RamLala’s consecration in Ayodhya, the anti-Ram face of the INDI Alliance has come to fore again.
Responding to the controversy, BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi said that these people of INDI Alliance are continuously attacking Sanatan and insulting Hindu religion. Whatever comes in their mind is Hindu. “Today, when crores of people of the country are preparing to go to Ram Temple, it is wrong to call the temple a symbol of slavery. The temple is a symbol of freedom from the cultural slavery that existed in this country,” the BJP leader said.
