Dehradun: Samajwadi Get together chief Swami Prasad Maurya has sparked yet one more controversy by saying that the well-known Badrinath temple in Garhwal Himalayas was “initially a Buddhist monastery.” Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has termed Maurya’s feedback “unlucky.”
Dhami mentioned Maurya’s remark displays the “anti-national and anti-religious” considering of the Congress and its allies. “The remark made by the Samajwadi Get together chief on Bhu Baikunth (heaven on earth) Shri Badrinath Dham, the centre of religion of crores of devotees, is unlucky,” Dhami mentioned, reacting to Maurya’s tweet that Badrinath was a Buddhist monastery till the eighth century.
Dhami mentioned the assertion by a frontrunner of the Samajwadi Get together, which is a member of the “Mahathagbandhan (alliance of thugs)”, reveals the anti-national and anti-religious considering of the Congress and its allies. “This view additionally reveals the dominance of the ideology of SIMI and PFI inside these events,” he mentioned.
Uttarakhand Minister for Tradition and Spiritual Affairs Satpal Maharaj mentioned Maurya’s touch upon Badrinath reveals his lack of expertise of the ‘Sanatan Dharma’ and that he solely desires to be within the information by making deceptive statements.
Maharaj, who can also be a non secular preacher with followers throughout the nation, mentioned ‘Nar-Narayan’ (lord Vishnu) had carried out penance in Badrinath Dham.
“Mahatma Buddha was not even born then. That is why it’s utterly fallacious to explain Badrinath Dham as a Buddhist monastery. Maurya must also know that when there was commerce in Uttarakhand from Niti Valley up to now, choices for Lord Badrinath used to return from the monasteries of Tibet,” he mentioned.
The sharp response by politicians and several other social media customers to his tweet didn’t deter Maurya from tweeting once more on the matter on Friday. “Akhir mirchi lagi na, (it hurts you lastly, does not it) now they’re reminded of their faith. Is not the religion of others additionally religion,” Maurya mentioned.
The SP chief mentioned that it was so as to not damage the non secular sentiments of any part that he had mentioned the standing of all centres of religion because it was on the 15th of August 1947 ought to be accepted to keep away from any dispute.
“Or else we ought to be prepared to just accept a historic reality. Until the eighth century, Badrinath was a Buddhist monastery. It was made a centre of Hindu pilgrimage after that, that is the reality,” he tweeted in Hindi.