Lucknow. SP General Secretary Swami Prasad Maurya has been in discussion for a long time. Cases were filed against him at many places for giving controversial statements on the cattle of Ramcharitmanas. Now another case has been registered against Swami Prasad Maurya. In fact, SP President Akhilesh Yadav unveiled the statue of BSP founder Kanshi Ram in Rae Bareli on Tuesday. Meanwhile, while speaking from the stage, Swami Prasad Maurya repeated an old slogan of BSP. When the BSP and SP had an alliance in UP, the slogan ‘Mile Mulayam-Kanshi Ram, Hawa Mein Ud Gaye Jai Shri Ram’ became famous. Swami Prasad raised this slogan. As a result, a case has been registered against him in Rae Bareli.
Swami Prasad Maurya is now giving clarification in this matter. He told a news channel that he was just referencing the old slogan. Swami Prasad Maurya also claimed that the people of UP are now looking towards the SP. You listen to what he said.
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See what Swami Prasad clarified on Zee UP-Uttarakhand@mayurshukla29 @SwamiPMaurya pic.twitter.com/FcZVHvFKOr— Zee Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand (@ZEEUPUK) April 5, 2023
On the other hand, BSP supremo Mayawati is also infuriated by Swami Prasad Maurya raising the slogan of ‘Hawa mein ud gaye Jai Shri Ram’. Mayawati started a flurry of tweets and wrote that the slogan raised in the presence of Akhilesh Yadav is politics of casteist hatred and unrestrained issues instead of development and public interest of UP and this is the nature of SP. You can read the thread of Mayawati’s tweet below.
1. In the presence of the SP chief, the news of a case against the SP leader involved in the Ramcharit Manas controversy over the slogan ‘Mile Mulayam-Kanshi Ram, Jai Shri Ram flew away in the air’ is in headlines today. In fact, it has been the nature of SP to do politics of casteist hatred and unrestrained issues instead of development and public interest of UP.
— Mayawati (@Mayawati) April 5, 2023
Overall, after the Ramcharitmanas on behalf of Swami Prasad Maurya, now the old slogan about Lord Shri Ram is now being raised, and the politics of UP is expected to heat up further. Swami Prasad Maurya was earlier in BSP. Then came to BJP accusing Mayawati of selling tickets and became a minister in the Yogi government. He switched from BJP to SP before the last UP assembly elections. His daughter Sanghamitra Maurya is a BJP MP from Badaun, UP.