Meerut: Joining the band of netas attaching caste tags to Lord Hanuman, a Meerut-based BJP leader said on Wednesday that he was a Vaish. “It is wrong to confine Lord Hanuman into a particular category but I feel he was from the Vaish community”, said Vineet Sharda, state secretary for BJP Vyapar Prakoshth.Politics over the Lord Hanuman's caste erupted when BJP MLC Bukkal Nawab claimed on December 20 that he was actually a Muslim. Soon, cabinet minister Laxmi Narain Chaudhary was quick to declare that he was not a Muslim but from the Jat community. "It is because he used to come forward to help everyone in trouble without even knowing about the issue,” he said.On Wednesday, when Sharda gave yet another identity to Lord Hanuman, he did not stop at that and said even Lord Rama was from “Vaish Samaj.”“Lord Hanuman is considered to be the son of Lord Rama which means Lord Rama was also a Vaish. We are descendants of Lord Rama and we think progressively. We are 25 crore Vaish Samaj representatives and many more abroad as well and also, we are hius true inheritors. And, hence all this politics over his caste should be put to rest.”The controversy around the antecedents of Lord Hanuman was triggered by chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who reportedly said at a rally in Rajasthan that he was a Dalit. The CM office, though, said later that he was misquoted.

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