LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, who is also the leader of Opposition in the state assembly, on Monday said he plans to ask chief minister Yogi Adityanath on the floor of the House to "translate certain verses of Goswami Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas and also identify shudras".
This is the first time that the SP chief has expressed his reservation over some verses in the 16th century epic. Until now, he had maintained a distance from the statement of his party leader Swami Prasad Maurya who had first triggered a row last week stating that the ruling BJP must remove some verses from the book as they were “derogatory and disrespectful” towards “women, Dalits and backwards”.
