Lucknow. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has hit back at the comment of former Union Minister and current BJP MP Anurag Thakur. He said, can BJP ask the caste of any Congress or any other person? Along with this, Akhilesh expressed his old pain and said, ‘Some people did not want me to do havan-puja, I cannot forget that day when the CM residence was cleaned with Gangajal.’
Politics has heated up in the Lok Sabha Parliament regarding caste. Former Union Minister and current BJP MP Anurag Thakur took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on the issue of caste census. After which the uproar intensified. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has retaliated to Anurag Thakur’s comment. He said, ‘Once I went to a temple, some people did not want me to do havan and puja. I will never forget that day when the CM residence was cleaned with Gangajal. Now you want to go to the moon, there is talk of Digital India. Can BJP ask the caste of any Congress leader or any other person?’
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Anurag Thakur made this comment
In fact, on Tuesday, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders were continuously demanding caste census in the Lok Sabha. There was a huge uproar on this issue. During the discussion on the budget in Parliament, BJP MP Anurag Thakur commented on Rahul Gandhi’s caste without taking his name. On which a controversy started. BJP MP from Hamirpur Anurag Thakur said in the Lok Sabha that ‘the person whose caste is not known is talking about caste census.’
Rahul Gandhi had retaliated
Rahul Gandhi hit back at this comment and said, ‘Anurag Thakur has abused me, insulted me, but I don’t even want an apology from him, I don’t need it. You can insult me as much as you want, but you should not forget that we will get the caste census bill passed in Parliament.’
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It is worth noting that during the Lok Sabha elections 2024, Akhilesh Yadav visited the famous Siddhpeeth Baba Gaurishankar temple in Kannauj and performed special puja, but there was a controversy over a video of this. According to Akhilesh Yadav, after his darshan, BJP workers got the temple premises washed with Gangajal. At the same time, after Akhilesh vacated the Chief Minister’s residence, Yogi Adityanath got the CM residence cleaned with Gangajal. After this, he went to live in the Chief Minister’s residence. Akhilesh Yadav’s pain over this was once again evident.
