{"id":306285,"date":"2018-11-29T07:26:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T07:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306285"},"modified":"2018-11-29T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T07:26:13","slug":"legal-notice-sent-to-up-cm-adityanath-for-calling-lord-hanuman-a-dalit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/legal-notice-sent-to-up-cm-adityanath-for-calling-lord-hanuman-a-dalit\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal notice sent to UP CM Adityanath for calling Lord Hanuman a Dalit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299904 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/22-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22-563x420.jpg 563w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A right-wing group in Rajasthan has sent a legal notice to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister (CM) Yogi Adityanath asking him to apologize within the time frame of three days for allegedly calling Lord Hanuman a Dalit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Suresh Mishra, president Rajasthan Sarv Brahmin Mahasabha, has sent a legal notice to CM Adityanath, accusing him of dragging Lord Hanuman\u2019s caste for political gain for the BJP in the poll-bound state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The notice reads, \u201cI am saddened that UP chief minister called Lord Hanuman deprived. His statement has hurt the religious sentiments of several devotees. Those who are deprived they get the strength to fight the odds. It is a sheer attempt to take political mileage in the election.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHanuman was a forest dweller, deprived and a Dalit. Bajrang Bali worked to connect all Indian communities together, from north to south and east to west,\u201d CM Adityanath said during a poll rally in Malakheda of Alwar District.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cThis was his resolve as it was Lord Ram\u2019s wish. Just like him, we should also not rest till we fulfill that wish.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Pramod Tiwari has strongly condemned the CM\u2019s remarks on Lord Hanuman, saying that the BJP divides individual and the society but it is for the first time that it has divided gods into castes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A right-wing group in Rajasthan has sent a legal notice to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister (CM) Yogi Adityanath asking him to apologize within the time frame of three days for allegedly calling Lord Hanuman a Dalit. Suresh Mishra, president Rajasthan Sarv Brahmin Mahasabha, has sent a legal notice to CM Adityanath, accusing him of dragging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014,2015],"tags":[9983,1478,9982,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306286,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306285\/revisions\/306286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}