NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday stoked a controversy after tweeting a poster which has irked many. Soon after Mr Kejriwal tweeted the poster, people on the microblogging site reacted with anger and said that it has hurt the Hindu sentiments.
The poster depicts Lord Hanuman as a ‘Rakshas’. It also shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the centre of a stage on fire surrounded by all the issues like the Dalit student Rohith Verma’s suicide, Pathankot terror attack and other burning issues where the latest is the JNU row.
“Done Sir, all attention is on JNU now,” says a blurb which shows a ‘right winger’ portrayed as ‘Lord Hanuman’ and obeying PM Modi’s orders.
Condemning the act, Delhi BJP President Satish Upadhyay said that the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has hurt the sentiments of crores of Hindus by portraying their revered Lord Hanuman in ‘bad’ taste.
Mr Upadhyay said, “We feel that this bad portrayal has been intentionally done to please the Leftist section which is responsible for anti national propaganda at Jawaharlal Nehru University. It is well-known that the Leftist section of politics has all along felt a sadistic pleasure in humiliating Hindu Gods to sleeve up their secular credentials.”
The party has further also demanded from the Chief Minister to immediately apologise to the nation especially to Hindus for creating this unnecessary controversy by hurting the religious sentiments.
