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Controversial right-wing leader Sambhaji Bhide on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comment at the United Nations General Assembly session on Lord Buddha is “wrong”.
Addressing the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Friday and exhorting nations to put up a joint fight against the menace of terrorism, PM Narendra Modi had said India had given the world Buddha’s message of peace and not war.
Reacting to this, Bhide on Sunday said PM Modi was “wrong” in talking about Lord Buddha as his teachings are “not useful” to bring about “order” in today’s world.
“PM Modi was wrong in saying India gave Buddha to the world. Buddha’s message peace and tolerance is of no use now. If you need the world to be in order, we need thoughts of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his son Sambhaji Maharaj. Only Maharashtra can correct the PM’s mistake,” Bhide, speaking in Sangli during a function to mark the beginning of Navratri.
Meanwhile, NCP leader Jitendra Awhad has slammed Bhide for his remarks.
“To understand ‘Buddha’, you need ‘Buddhi’ (intelligence). PM Modi should tell the people of Maharashtra whether he is with Buddha or Bhide. The land of Maharashtra will not tolerate using Shivaji’s name to create communal disharmony,” Jitendra Awhad said.
“It’s unfortunate that both Nathuram Godse and Bhide are born in Maharashtra,” Jitendra Awhad added.
Bhide, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist who heads the Shiv Pratishthan Hindustan in Maharashtra, is an accused in the January 1, 2018 Koregaon Bhima caste violence case. However, he was never arrested.
Bhide has earlier been at the centre of controversy for such statements, prime among which was a claim made during a rally in Nashik that having mangoes from his orchards helped women give birth to sons.
He had also claimed, in September this year, that the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) managed to land a spacecraft on the moon on the 39th attempt as the agency had launched it on ‘Ekadashi’ day as per the Indian system of time measurement.
(With inputs from Swati Chikhalikar in Sangli and PTI)
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https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pm-modi-s-buddha-remark-at-unga-wrong-maharashtra-right-wing-leader-1604598-2019-09-30