AG Vallabhan / Bhopal | Bhojpuri singer Neha Singh Rathore, ‘UP me ka ba’ fame, has yet again made headlines, this time over a controversial social media post related to the incident in Madhya Pradesh where a man urinated on a tribal. She captioned the post with ‘MP me ka ba? Coming soon..', possibly referring to a new song she is planning to release, in line with her earlier number like ‘UP me ka ba?’ and ‘Bihar me ka ba’.
In the post, the singer posted a caricature showing a half-naked man, presumably the accused, seen urinating on another man, likely referring to the tribal. The man who was shown urinating was wearing a white shirt, a black cap and his khaki shorts lying on the floor.
BJP's Scheduled Caste Front's media in-charge Suraj Khare has lodged a complaint with the police on Neha’s tweet of July 6. He asked her why she is not tweeting on other national issues like Love Jihad and Land Jihad.
Later, on the complaint of Suraj Khare, Habibganj Police registered a first information report (FIR) against the singer under Section 153(A) for promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race etc.
Reacting to the notice, the singer said “In Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district, a BJP leader urinated on the head of a tribal man. An FIR has been lodged against me for criticizing this incident,” she said in a tweet in Hindi.
Two days ago, a video of a man identified as Pravesh Shukla, who reportedly has links to the Bharatiya Janata Party, allegedly abusing a tribal sitting in the Kubari market of Sidhi district, and later urinating on him in an inebriated state has gone viral, sparking online outrage.
Rathore was earlier served a police notice in February for releasing ‘UP me ka ba-season 2’ criticising the Uttar Pradesh government after the death of a mother-daughter duo in Kanpur Rural during an eviction drive.
On Tuesday, the MP Police arrested Shukla for allegedly urinating on a tribal youth - hours after the video went viral. An official from the CM's office had said that a case had been registered against Pravesh under Indian Penal Code sections 294 (obscene acts), 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace), and also charged him with the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Condemning the incident of bulldozing the house of the relatives of the accused Shukla, Akhil Bhartiya Brahmin Samaj has taken objection saying that the administration has demolished the house of Shukla’s father and of his cousin.
However , All India Brahmin Samaj Madhya Pradesh state president Pandit Pushpendra Mishra said that a person like accused Pravesh Shukla has no acceptance in any caste or society. The act done by him is condemnable and inexcusable, he added.
