Swami Prasad Maurya

"This book is like any other novel and it is being wrongly used to propagate the Hindu religion. Tulsidas ji has just stated his opinion. It is not a religious book. The copies of the said book should be burnt on the day of Holika. Only then will the backward-class people and Dalits get their rights," Patel said

UP Police arrested five persons for the desecration of the holy Hindu scripture Ramcharitmanas in Lucknow on January 29.

The Lucknow police in Uttar Pradesh has booked Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya and Akhil Bharatiya OBC Mahasabha members after latter burnt copies of Ramcharitmanas

This comes after Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya claimed that certain portions of the Ramcharitmanas “insult” a large section of society on the basis of caste and demanded that these be “banned”.