Picture of Mayawati as Kali goes viral

Lucknow: Here is another controversy waiting to explode. A BSP worker Balmukund Dhuria posted a picture on his Facebook page in which Ms Mayawati is depicted as Goddess Kali and is shown holding the severed head of HRD minister Smriti Irani. She can be seen stomping on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Balmukund Dhuria also wrote a post on his Facebook account hailing Mayawati  and said, “Bhajpaiyon Hoshiyar, nahin chalega jhuth, beimaani ka vyapaar, behanji hain taiyar, abki bar BSP sarkar”.

Balmukund Dhuria is said to be a close aide of BSP state president Ram Achal Rajbhar. However, after the Facebook post, he denied having known the man. Dhuria was apparently pulled up by the party leaders over the post and he then deleted it from his page. But, by then the image had already gone viral on the social media.

When questioned by reporters, Dhuria said such pictures keep emerging on the internet and cartoons should not be taken seriously. State BJP president Laxmikant Bajpai condemned the cartoon and said that when people do not have reasonable arguments, they resort to such acts. He said that BSP workers should not start worshipping Goddess Kali. Mayawati recently had taken on HRD minister Smriti Irani in Rajya Sabha blaming government for mishandling the Rohith Vemula suicide issue. Hitting back at her, the minister had said that she would offer her head at Mayawati’s feet.