New Delhi: A snippet from a purported video interview with Bihar Education Minister Chandrashekhar has surfaced in which he can be heard saying that Islam is the only faith teaching love and peace.
BJP leader Kapil Mishra tweeted the viral video clip, claiming that the Bihar minister has an “anti-Hindu agenda”.
ये है बिहार का शिक्षा मंत्री जो रामचरित मानस के बारे में बदतमीज़ी कर रहा था
विडियो देखिए – मोहब्बत और ईमान का पैग़ाम देने वाला अकेला इस्लाम है
सिर्फ़ हिंदुओं को गाली देना एजेंडा
अब इसे संत रविदास जी याद नहीं आये
इनको किसी जाति की भलाई से मतलब नहीं, ये जिहादियों के ग़ुलाम है pic.twitter.com/QfYSd8A7U6
— Kapil Mishra (@KapilMishra_IND) January 15, 2023
Other verified Twitter handles were also seen sharing the video clip. The snippet shared by the Twitter handle of Major Surendra Poonia has garnered over 67, 400 views and more than 1,000 retweets.
3 दिन पहले बिहार में RJD कोटे के शिक्षा मंत्री चंद्रशेखर ने कहा था कि रामचरितमानस को जला दो
आज वो कह रहे हैं -मोहब्बत और ईमान का पैग़ाम देने वाला अकेला इस्लाम है
हद है …सिर्फ़ एक समुदाय के वोटों के लिए RJD के लोग PFI/SIMI का समर्थन करेंगे और हिंदुओं की आस्था को गाली देंगें 👎 pic.twitter.com/CcZUjiWWbO
— Major Surendra Poonia (@MajorPoonia) January 15, 2023
Others, such as Hindi newspaper Jansatta and BJP worker Priti Gandhi, also shared the clip.
बिहार के शिक्षा मंत्री चंद्रशेखर कहते हैं कि "रामचरित मानस को जला देना चाहिए क्योंकि इससे नफरत फैलती है!"
उन्होंने एक और बयान दिया – "मोहब्ब्त और ईमान का पैग़ाम देने वाला अकेला इस्लाम है!"
इसलम की प्रशंसा और हिंदुत्व का तिरस्कार – इसका मुख्य कारण विभाजित हिन्दू समाज है!! pic.twitter.com/iaf3c191dv
— Priti Gandhi – प्रीति गांधी (@MrsGandhi) January 15, 2023
मोहब्बत और ईमान का पैग़ाम देने वाला अकेला इस्लाम है – नीतीश के मंत्री ने दिया था ऐसा बयान, वीडियो शेयर कर बीजेपी नेता ने कसा तंज https://t.co/DM0WayqCVN
— Jansatta (@Jansatta) January 15, 2023
Fact check
The viral snippet, however, has been trimmed from a full video of an interview that Chandrashekhar gave to The Republican Times in May, 2022.
The viral video also came days after Chandrashekhar’s comments on the Ramcharitmanas and the Manusmriti sparked controversy. Addressing students at the 15th convocation ceremony of the Nalanda Open University last week, the Bihar minister had described the two texts as books that “divide society“.
“Why was Manusmriti burnt, because many abuses were given in it against a large section. Why was Ramcharitmanas resisted and which part was resisted? Lower caste people were not allowed to access education and it is said in the Ramcharitmanas that lower caste people become poisonous by getting an education as a snake becomes after drinking milk,” Chandrashekhar had said.
His comments sparked a massive outrage among BJP leaders, with some citing that the minister was doing politics of “Muslim appeasement“.
(In collaboration with SM Hoaxslayer)
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