Amid the ongoing controversy on the holy book of Hindi culture, Pankaj Chaudhary alleged that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav 'indirectly supports' Swami Prasad Maurya and his ideology.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad chief Alok Kumar has hit out at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav after the elevation of Swami Prasad Maurya as the party's general secretary despite his controversial remark on Ramcharitmanas.
Samajwadi Party MLC Swami Prasad Maurya on Monday through a tweet attacked the seer (Mahant) Raju Das stating that he could have just cursed him instead of spending Rs 21 lakh to get him killed.
Through his tweet, the SP MLC Mauya has alleged that the seer Raju Das spent Rs 21 lakh to get h
Maurya stirred controversy by demanding the deletion of "insulting comments and sarcasm" targeted at particular castes and sects in Ramcharitmanas, a poem based on the epic Ramayana.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday took a swipe at the move to rename 'Mughal Gardens' on the Rashtrapati Bhavan premises to 'Amrit Udyan' and said that the government should also rename 'Izzatghar' as "Amrit Sauchalaya".
Samajwadi Party (SP) MLC Swami Prasad Maurya on Sunday tweeted that he will continue to protest against the conspiracy of insulting the Adivasis, women and Dalits in the name of religion.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav was received with black flags, when he participated in the Maa Pitambara 108 Mahayagya on the banks of the Gomti in Daliganj, to protest against party leader Swami Prasad Maurya's statement on Ramcharitmanas.
Refusing to apologise for his remarks on Ramacharitmanas, Maurya said that the party is seeking justice for the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and the backward classes of the country.
Former Uttar Pradesh Minister Sidharth Nath Singh launched a scathing attack on Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief Akhilesh Yadav and challenged him to throw out SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya from the party over his remarks on the scripture Ramcharitmanas.
UP Minister Jaiveer Singh said, "SP people should ask their conscience that the way BJP has honoured Padma Vibhushan, would they have given it to any BJP leader."
Daughter of Samajwadi Party MLC Swami Prasad Maurya and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sanghamitra Maurya on Thursday reacted to her father's controversial remark on Ramcharitmanas and said that it should be discussed and not objected to.