Shashi Tharoor insults Hindus with crude comment on Yogi Adityanath's holy dip at Kumbh

New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor took a dig at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s holy dip in the Sangam at Prayagraj and made an immature comment about people’s clothing, saying that ‘everyone is naked in this Sangam’. 

Tharoor’s tweet came after the Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday met at the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj for the first time.

“Ganga bhi swachh rakhni hain, aur paap bhi yahi dhone hain. Iss Sangam mein sab nange hain. Jai Ganga Maiya ki!" he said in a tweet with a photo of Adityanath and the entire Cabinet. (Ganga has to be kept clean, and sins also have to be washed there. In this sangam (meeting point of rivers) everyone is naked. Hail Goddess Ganga!)

गंगा भी स्वच्छ रखनी है और पाप भी यहीं धोने हैं। इस संगम में सब नंगे हैं!
जय गंगा मैया की! pic.twitter.com/qAmHThAJjD

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor)

Union minister Smriti Irani slammed Tharoor on his 'religious slur' and asked how can janeu dhari Congress president Rahul Gandhi allow an attack on Hindu beliefs.

"For Shashi Tharoor to make a statement which tantamounts to a religious slur. Question needs to be asked of Rahul Gandhi who strategically wears a ‘Jenau’ only when there are polls, as to why he has allowed this attack on beliefs of millions of Hindus across the world," Irani said.

Smriti Irani:For Shashi Tharoor to make a statement which tantamounts to a religious slur.Question needs to be asked of Rahul Gandhi who strategically wears a ‘Jenau’ only when there are polls, as to why he has allowed this attack on beliefs of millions of Hindus across the world pic.twitter.com/RIYkVynr47

— ANI (@ANI)

UP minister Siddharth Nath Singh, reacting to Tharoor’s comment said, “How will he understand the importance of Kumbh? The atmosphere he’s in, the culture he has been brought up in, don’t understand this. You people have committed a lot of misdeeds, take a holy dip in Kumbh and you might be able to repent for your sins.”

Here is how Twitter reacted
 

पाप धोने तो शायद आप भी गए थे । नहीं? pic.twitter.com/QTsqfWidGZ

— Rita 🇮🇳 (@RitaG74)

sir ,
स्वच्छ गंगा में अपने पाप को धोकर कुछ पापीयों ने गंदा कर दिया है। कृपया retweet करें। pic.twitter.com/O2F6oRxsZG

— Shashank (@pokershash)

पापी, गंगा में लोग सिर्फ़ पाप धोने नहीं बल्कि माँ गंगा का आशीर्वाद लेने भी आते है लेकिन पापियों को यह बात समझ में आने से रही। https://t.co/T8PDKnenxv

— Abhishek Mishra (@Abhishek_Mshra)

गंगा तो कभी स्वच्छ रखी नहीं और सारे पापी यहाँ प्रवाह कर दिए । ये भी इस संगम की महिमा है !!
जय राजीव गांधी गंगा ऐक्शन प्लान वाली मैया की !! pic.twitter.com/wBRF6ps1oI

— Yo Yo Funny Singh (@moronhumor)

This was the first time the UP cabinet held an official meeting outside Lucknow. After the cabinet meeting, the chief minister announced a massive Rs. 36,000 crore Ganga expressway project to connect western Uttar Pradesh's Meerut to Prayagraj. Yogi Adityanath claimed it would be the world's longest expressway at about 600 km.

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