"Nupur Sharma Denigrated Prophet, I Celebrated Goddess": Mahua Moitra
NDTV
Citing the Kalbhairav temple of Ujjain and the Kamakhya temple of Assam, Mahua Moitra dared the BJP governments of the two states to file affidavits contradicting her.
Trinamool Congress's Mahua Moitra -- who had a clutch of police cases filed against her over her remark on Goddess Kali as a "meat-eating and alcohol-accepting goddess" that has offended the BJP -- today said she stands by her comment and challenged the party to prove her wrong. The BJP, she said, "is trying to impose a monolithic, patriarchal, Brahminical, North Indian idea of my religion".
"I challenge the BJP to prove me wrong. Anywhere in Bengal where they file a case, there will be a Kali temple within 5 km where the goddess is worshipped thus," she told NDTV in an exclusive interview.
Citing the Kalbhairav temple of Ujjain and the Kamakhya temple of Assam, she dared the BJP governments of the two states to file affidavits contradicting her. One of the police cases filed against her is in Bhopal.
In a recent interview, Ms Moitra had said she had every right as an individual to imagine Goddess Kali as a "meat-eating and alcohol-accepting goddess" as every person has the right to worship God in their own way.
