"Jyaada mat chhedo Hanuman ji ko," says Congress' Raj Babbar warning BJP consequences like in M.P, Rajasthan & Chhattisgarh

UP Congress chief Raj Babbar on Monday commented on the appropriation of Lord Hanuman into politics by the Bharatiya Janata Party, hinting that Hindutva ideology had routed the party from three states in the Hindi belt. He implied that if the party continued to bring in Hindutva into politics, they may suffer the same fate in the Lok Sabha they did in the assembly elections.

"BJP should understand that they should not trouble Lord Hanuman as an attack from tail had caused you to lose three states. Now your Lanka will be burned," he said.

Three different lawmakers from BJP's Uttar Pradesh including CM Yogi Adityanath had attributed religious and caste identity to the deity, the latest one on last Friday. 

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On December 21, after Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath attributed caste to Lord Hanuman, saying that the God was a Dalit, and a BJP MLC Bukkal Nawab commented that Hanuman is a Muslim, another lawmaker had called the God from the Ramayan a Jat.

Laxmi Narayan, an MLA from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet, has said that Hanuman is a Jat. "He joined Lord Ram as a servant, hence he has the characteristics of Jat, so I call him a Jat."

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During an election rally in Malakheda of Alwar district in Rajasthan in November, Yogi Adityanath had reportedly said, “Hanuman 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”.

“Hanuman was a forest dweller, deprived and a Dalit," the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister had told at a poll rally in Alwar.

“This was his resolve as it was Lord Ram’s wish. Just like him, we should also not rest till we fulfil that wish,” he had added.