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BJP politician lands in controversy for calling Goddess Sita first Test Tube baby!
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, who had once said jets and airplanes were nothing new as there was ‘Pushpak Viman’ during Vedic times, now holds Goddess Sita, the wife of Lord Rama, was in fact the first test tube baby of India.
According to a video grab during rounds of social media, Sharma, at the inauguration of a skill development event here, said that this was proved beyond doubt as Sita was found in an earthen pot when King Janaka was ploughing a field.
“Sita was born from an earthen pot… at that time, some test tube baby project must be underway that King Janak was ploughing a field that when he was took the baby out of the pot, she became Sita. Shouldn’t this technology be called test tube baby,” he said to an amused gathering.
Sharma has been saying such things in the past too. He has said that Sanjay, the character in Mahabharata who could see things far off was akin to “live telecast” of today. At a recent event to mark the ‘Hindi Patrakarita Diwas’ Sharma had called the saint Narada as the first journalist.
Dinesh Sharma today suggested that goddess Sita was a test tube baby, embarrassing the BJP which rushed to control the damage by disapproving his comments and asking him to maintain restraint in his speeches.
Sharma made the remarks last night in a speech which went viral today, inviting widespread scorn.
“All of us know that Lord Ram returned from Lanka in Pushpak Vimaan. This proves that vimaan (aircaft) existed then. It is said goddess Sita was born in a ghada (pitcher). At that point of time, some project of test tube baby existed,” the BJP leader claimed.
Senior BJP leader creates controversy by predicting Goddess Sita as Test Tube baby!:
“Janak (Sita’s father) used a plough, and a baby came out from the pitcher. She became Sitaji. This is some kind of technology which is similar to today’s test tube baby,” he added.
His reference to Sita, believed to be born in Bihar’s Mithila region and considered a revered figure there, alarmed the BJP’s top brass as it was believed that it would not go down well with the believers, whom the party considered a key constituency.
Party sources said national general secretary Bhupender Yadav called up Sharma to convey its displeasure for his comments and asked him to exercise restraint in his speeches.
Only recently, Sharma-whose several portfolios in the state government also included education-had claimed that journalism had started during the Mahabharata era and likened Narada to Google.
“Your Google has started now, but our Google started a long time back. Narad muni could reach anywhere and transfer a message from one place to another by saying ‘Narayana’ three times,” he said.
The BJP leaders have courted controversy by linking modern inventions with ancient India by claiming that advance medical procedures like cataract and plastic surgeries, theory of gravitation, nuclear tests and the Internet had all started during the ancient times.
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