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Don't discuss Lord Hanuman's caste, he was a sportsman: Chetan Chauhan joins the debate
Amid the growing debate on Lord Hanuman's identity, former Indian cricketer Chetan Chauhan has said that the lord was a sportsperson who is worshipped by many sportspersons even today, adding that his caste should not be discussed.
DNA Web Team | Dec 23, 2018, 03:39 PM IST
1.Laxmi Naryan Chaudhary
The debate over Lord Hanuman continued on Friday, with an Uttar Pradesh minister claiming that the Hindu deity belonged to the Jat community.
"Jats are descendants of Lord Hanuman. Hanumanji was a Jat," Uttar Pradesh Religious Affairs Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary told PTI.
His remarks follow those of his party colleague and MLC Bukkal Nawab, who on Thursday said Lord Hanuman was "actually a Muslim". Last month, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had claimed that the monkey god was a Dalit.
Explaining the rationale behind his statement, Chaudhary said, "Lord Ram's wife, goddess Sita, was abducted by Ravan, but Lanka was burnt by Hanumanji. It's injustice being done to someone by someone and the third person does not know either of them. This is the nature of Jats...they intervene whenever any injustice is done to anybody." This is the latest in a series of identities that have been attributed to Lord Hanuman.
2.Yogi Adityanath – UP CM
While campaigning during the recent Assembly elections, Adityanath 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."
3.UP BJP MLC – Bukkal Nawab
In an interesting twist to the debate over Lord Hanuman after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath termed the god a Dailt, his party colleague and MLC Bukkal Nawab Thursday said the deity was "actually a Muslim". He was actually a Muslim "Lord Hanuman belongs to all, and as far as I think, Hanumanji was actually a Muslim," Nawab, who left the Samajwadi Party to join the BJP when the Yogi Adityanath government came to power, told reporters here. He argued that the deity's name is very similar to the names among Muslims and many of them are named after him. Savitra Phule
4.Savitribai Phule
On December 4 former BJP MP Savitribai Phule took exception to the manner in which the deity is depicted.
"Lord Hanuman was a Dalit and a slave of 'manuwadi' people. He was a Dalit and a human. He did everything for Lord Ram, then why was he given a tail and his face blackened," she asked.
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