Bhagalpur (Bihar) [India], January 22 (ANI): Whereas the controversy over Bihar Schooling minister’s comment on Ramcharitmanas is but to die down, one other minister, Alok Mehta, on Saturday made a snide comment towards Brahmins and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, saying those that tolled bells at temples have been now ruling states.
Talking at a public assembly in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, state Income Minister Alok Mehta on Saturday, “Individuals, who used to toll bells at temples, are actually occupying highly effective positions. Take Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for example.”
Additional, targetting higher caste communities, the minister mentioned 10 per cent of the nation’s inhabitants, who was brokers of the British Raj, are actually runnning their writ on the remaining 90 per cent comprising deprived and backward communities.
“Ninety per cent of our inhabitants, which was represented by (former Bihar deputy chief minister) Jagdev Babu, was exploited first by the British Raj after which by their brokers, whom Jagdev Babu known as 10 per cent,” Mehta claimed.
Dealing with an enormous backlash on social media, the minister clarified his statements.
In a personalised video, Mehta mentioned the ten per cent that Jagdev Babu talked about are usually not folks of any specific caste however signify a category, which has been exploiting the backward lessons and the follow continues to today.
Earlier, Bihar Schooling Minister Chadra Shekhar triggered a row together with his assertion that Ramcharitmanas, a poem based mostly on the epic Ramayana by Tulsidas, is divisive amnd spreads hatred within the society. (ANI)
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