Magazine condemns Brahmanical order, Mayawati orders probe
May 19th, 2010 - 9:46 pm ICT by IANS -
Lucknow, May 19 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Wednesday
ordered a probe after a Hindi monthly, patronised by the ruling
Bahujan Samaj Party (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 bureaucrats' office in
the state secretariat here.
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 (CID) 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.
"When we made inquiries from the editor, he claimed the article had
gone into print without his knowledge as it was not physically
possible for him to go through every article," said an official
release.
"The editor adds that he would not have allowed the article to be
published in case he had the opportunity to take a look at it," it
said.
The editor also feigned ignorance about the mention of the names of
several prominent BSP ministers in the list of patrons of the
magazine.
These are Naseeuddin Siddiqui, Babu Singh Kushwaha, Swami Prasad
Maurya and Paras Nath Maurya.
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