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Bahujan Samaj Party main Mayawati connected Friday (May 15, 2026) questioned the Samajwadi Party (SP) main Akhilesh Yadav's soundlessness regarding the alleged objectionable remarks made against Brahmins by an SP spokesperson Rajkumar Bhati. She said the enactment soundlessness is causing the substance to escalate and presume greater gravity.
In a station connected X successful Hindi, Ms. Mayawati said, "The wide outrage and vehement condemnation regarding the indecent, unseemly, and objectionable remarks directed astatine the Brahmin assemblage made by a salient nationalist spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party, are wholly natural. However, the soundlessness of the SP enactment known for engaging successful narrow, caste-based authorities connected this matter, is further exacerbating and importantly escalating the situation. The concern is besides becoming progressively tense."
The BSP main said, "Taking a superior enactment of the wounded inflicted upon the honour and self-respect of the Brahmin assemblage by the irresponsible connection of the SP spokesperson, it would apt beryllium due for the SP main to instrumentality contiguous cognisance of the matter, connection an apology and explicit remorse to the Brahmin community."
She said this caller occurrence has demonstrated to the nationalist that the SP's casteist tactics and quality — hostile towards the Brahmin community, conscionable arsenic they are towards Dalits, the Most Backward Classes, and the Muslim assemblage — person not changed.
"In fact, this cognition has lone deepened. Moreover, the aggravated resentment presently brewing wrong the Brahmin assemblage regarding the contiguous government's cognition towards them is nary concealed to anyone," she said.
She remarked that it is simply a well-known information that the BSP, existent to its committedness to each sections of society, has accorded the Brahmin assemblage and others immense respect wrong some the enactment and the government, portion besides ensuring their owed practice astatine each level.
In different words, the BSP does not subscribe to a "use-and-throw" policy; rather, the interests of each sections of nine person ever remained unafraid nether it, she said.
Police successful Ghaziabad territory of Uttar Pradesh booked Mr. Bhati connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) nether Section 196(1) (promoting enmity betwixt groups connected grounds of religion) of the BNS. “This enactment followed a ailment lodged by BJP person Ajay Sharma astatine the Kavinagar constabulary presumption regarding Mr. Bhati’s alleged derogatory remarks against Brahmins during the May 5 lawsuit astatine Jawahar Bhawan successful Delhi,” the officials said.
Mr. Sharma sought strict enactment against Mr. Bhati for hurting his spiritual sentiments. In a viral video, Mr. Bhati tin beryllium heard saying, "Neither a Brahmin is good, nor is simply a courtesan."
However, aft the video sparked outrage, Mr. Bhati apologised and said definite parts of his code were selectively excerpted and utilized to dispersed malicious propaganda.
Officials said different FIR was registered against Mr. Bhati astatine the Noida Sector 24 constabulary presumption connected a ailment filed by Sushil Kumar, a nonmigratory of Noida, connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026).
