Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday stoked a controversy after tweeting a poster that faced criticism of many netizens.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday stoked a controversy after tweeting a poster that faced criticism of many netizens. Soon after Mr Kejriwal tweeted the anti-BJP poster on his Twitter feed, people on the microblogging site reacted with anger and said that it hurt sentiments of Hindus.
The poster depicts a Sangh Parivar activist like Hanuman in the Ramayana with his tail on fire. It also shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the centre of a stage on fire surrounded by all the issues like Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s suicide, Pathankot terror attack and other burning issues, where the latest is the JNU controversy.
“Done Sir, all attention is on JNU now,” says a blurb which shows a right-wing activist, portrayed as Lord Hanuman, obeying Prime Minister Modi’s orders.
Condemning the cartoon, Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay said that the city chief minister had hurt the sentiments of Hindus by portraying one of their deities, 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 also demanded that the chief minister must immediately apologise to the nation, especially Hindus, for creating this controversy.
