http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Pro-BSP-magzine-ridicules-Hindu-rituals/articleshow/5951396.cms
Pro-BSP magzine ridicules Hindu rituals
IANS, May 20, 2010, 03.09am IST
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday ordered a
probe after a Hindi monthly, patronized by the ruling BSP, published
an article condemning various Hindu rituals and Brahmanical practices.
The May issue of the periodical has also made alleged derogatory
references to temples, Vedas, Upanishads and Ramayana. Even Mahatma
Gandhi has not been spared and referred to as "enemy of Dalits" while
Hindu religion has been dubbed a "slur on human values".
Published from Jaunpur, the journal is titled "Ambedkar Today", whose
calendars can be seen hanging in every senior bureaucrat's office in
the state secretariat in Luckow.
Even though the magazine has been in publication for more than five
years, it became one of the journals patronised by the BSP.
This fetched the magazine government advertisements worth crores of
rupees. The Crime Branch of the Criminal Investigation Department will
probe the case. Meanwhile, a government release said the magazine
editor, Rajiv Ratan, a close kin of senior BSP leader Paras Nath
Maurya, did not know about the offending article.
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