Does Chhagan Bhujbal, who calls temple priests ‘half-naked’, have the courage to criticise the veils of pastors, Muslim clerics and Muslim women ?

• Case of Bhujbal criticising the dress code implemented in various temples of Maharashtra
• Hindu Janajagruti Samiti’s question through press release

(Vastra Samhita (Dress code) is the guideline regarding the clothes to be worn while entering the temple)

NCP leader and former minister Chhagan Bhujbal

Mumbai – NCP leader and former minister Chhagan Bhujbal criticised the dress code implemented by various temples in Maharashtra, saying “Temple Priests are half-naked. Tell them to wear full clothes”, thereby showing his hatred towards Hindu Dharma. The Hindu Janajagruti Committee strongly condemns it. Bhujbal doesn’t know this simple fact that according to Dharma Shastra, puja is done wearing ‘Sovale’ (silk or cotton dhoti to be worn during puja) and ‘Uparna’ (shawl) and he has the audacity to call others (Hindus) ‘stupid’. He has the audacity to insult temple priests by calling them ‘half-naked’. All the Muslim men who visit ‘Kaaba’ in Mecca do not wear clothes above the waist similar to temple priests, does Bhujbal have the courage to call them ‘half-naked’ ? Burqa is being forced on Muslim women whether they want it or not, will Chhagan Bhujbal, progressives and Brigade group have the courage to call it ‘stupidity’ ? Hindu Janajagruti Samiti asked these outright questions through a press release.

Samiti’s press release said,

1. People who object to the dress of temple priests support ‘hijab’ and criticise the dress code in temples, this is the hypocrisy of the so-called progressives.

2. The khaki uniform of the Police, white coat of doctors, black coat of lawyers, all these ‘dress codes’ approved by the secular Government are allowed.

3. Bhujbal himself, when he was a minister in Uddhav Thackeray’s cabinet, had implemented the ‘dress code’ in all Government offices in the State. Accordingly, officers and employees were instructed not to wear jeans-pants, T-shirts, brightly coloured or embroidered clothing, and slippers, and to wear only decent clothes. But the appeal of wearing only cultured clothes in temples does not work for him. This is hatred towards Indian culture. People will teach a lesson to those who take such an anti-Indian culture stance.

4. “Shouldn’t children enter temple wearing half pants ?” this question of Bhujbal is basically childish. He is deliberately misleading the society when nowhere it is said that children should not wear half pants.

5. This campaign of wearing decent and sattvik clothes in temples is also getting good response from the society. Temples are a religious matter, politicians should not interfere in it.