<p class="title">Taking strong objection to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/after-dalit-lord-hanuman-gets-705601.html" target="_blank">Yogi Adityanath's "Lord Hanuman is Dalit" remark</a>, state minister Om Prakash Rajbhar said it was wrong to divide Gods into castes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Addressing a public meeting in Shamli district on Sunday, the backward classes welfare minister criticised his own government for starting a controversy with such statements.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is wrong to divide Gods into castes and due to this controversy, Dalit community is demanding to takeover Hanuman temples, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While addressing a rally in Rajasthan's Alwar district last week, Adityanath had said, "Hanuman was a forest dweller, deprived and a Dalit. 'Bajrang Bali' worked to unite all Indian communities, from north to south and east to west".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reacting to the remarks, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar had Sunday said members of the community should take over all Hanuman temples in the country and appoint Dalits as priests there.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajbhar also hit out at the state government for not providing 27 percent reservation to the Kashyap community.</p>
<p class="title">Taking strong objection to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/after-dalit-lord-hanuman-gets-705601.html" target="_blank">Yogi Adityanath's "Lord Hanuman is Dalit" remark</a>, state minister Om Prakash Rajbhar said it was wrong to divide Gods into castes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Addressing a public meeting in Shamli district on Sunday, the backward classes welfare minister criticised his own government for starting a controversy with such statements.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is wrong to divide Gods into castes and due to this controversy, Dalit community is demanding to takeover Hanuman temples, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">While addressing a rally in Rajasthan's Alwar district last week, Adityanath had said, "Hanuman was a forest dweller, deprived and a Dalit. 'Bajrang Bali' worked to unite all Indian communities, from north to south and east to west".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reacting to the remarks, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar had Sunday said members of the community should take over all Hanuman temples in the country and appoint Dalits as priests there.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rajbhar also hit out at the state government for not providing 27 percent reservation to the Kashyap community.</p>