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Bhushan in spot over Lord Krishna tweet

NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: Lawyer-politician Prashant Bhushan today stoked a controversy with certain remarks on Lord Krishna while criticising the ‘anti-Romeo’ drive in Uttar Pradesh, following which he was booked for hurting religious feelings.

Bhushan in spot over Lord Krishna tweet

Prashant Bhushan



New Delhi/Lucknow, April 2

Lawyer-politician Prashant Bhushan today stoked a controversy with certain remarks on Lord Krishna while criticising the ‘anti-Romeo’ drive in Uttar Pradesh, following which he was booked for hurting religious feelings.

“Romeo loved just one lady, while Krishna was a legendary Eve teaser. Would (UP CM Yogi) Adityanath have the guts to call his vigilantes Anti-Krishna squads (sic)?” Bhushan tweeted.

As the controversy erupted, he tried for damage-control by tweeting that his remarks had been distorted and he had no intention of hurting religious sentiments. “My tweet on Romeo brigade being distorted. My position is: By the logic of Romeo Brigade, even Lord Krishna would look like eve teaser.

“We have grown up with legends of young Krishna teasing Gopis. The logic of Romeo squad would criminalise this. Didn’t intend to hurt sentiments,” he said in another tweet.

However, by then separate police complaints had been filed against him by Delhi BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Bagga in the national capital and UP Congress spokesperson Zeeshan Haidar in Lucknow.

Lucknow SSP Manzil Saini, said they had registered an FIR against Bhushan under IPC sections related to hurting religious feelings and promoting enmity between different groups. — PTI

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