Is there a conspiracy behind CM Yogi’s skullcap controversy?

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited saint Kabir’s Mazaar in Maghar prior to the planned visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His visit was conducted to inspect the preparations ahead of the PM Modi’s visit to Sant Kabir Nagar. Any incident involving CM Yogi and a mazaar was a probable ground for rage and controversy for the mainstream media and so called secular factions in the country. The visit gave prerequisite material to the leftist cabal to raise hue and cry and all it took was a rejection of the skullcap by CM Yogi. The skullcap was offered by the warden of the mazaar to CM Yogi who politely declined to wear it for personal reasons. It was a simple case of a Hindu and a political leader calmly and politely rejecting the offer to wear a skullcap which is anyways not used in his religion. But that is not how the leftist media houses and pseudo-secular parties of the opposition saw it. They saw it as an opportunity to term it as Hindu pleasing antics done by the UP CM.

The fools who are raising fingers at CM Yogi refusing to wear a skullcap to please Hindus forget that Yogi Adityanath has always been seen wearing a saffron attire. He does not need to reject a skullcap to show that he is a Hindu leader. He has also refused to participate in Eid citing the very same reason that he is a Hindu and he does not celebrate Eid. There is no need for him to reject a skullcap to show his Hindu birth and personal leanings. There is nothing wrong in rejecting a skullcap similarly like a Muslim leader is yet to be seen wearing a tilak on his forehead or prominently displaying a janeu. Quite ironically, the incident which is being seen as an insult on secularism happened on the mazaar of saint Kabir who himself once said,

कंकर-पत्थर जोरि के  मस्जिद लई बनाय, ता चढ़ि मुल्ला बांग दे का बहरा भया खुदाय|. (Brick by brick they built the Mosque, on top of which the cleric shouts in the early morning as if the God is deaf)

This doha is proof enough that Kabir himself was against loud displays of religion and proclamation of the religious beliefs. There is certainly no requirement therefore for any person to wear signs and symbols of a specific religion in order to appreciate saint Kabir who was a gem of Indian literature.

Another point which is sorely missing in the whole incident is that Union Minister Mahesh Sharma was also accompanying the UP CM in his visit to the mazaar. The Union Minister was not offered the skullcap as has been claimed by Shehzad Poonawala.

Thus showing that there were some hidden motives behind offering CM Yogi the same, at least the deductions made by the Islamic scholars and leftist media personnel makes us think so. We are not raising any questions on the actions of the warden who simply offered the skullcap and then contented himself with the reply from CM Yogi. But the people who are seeing it as a message to the Muslim community should stop with their divisive efforts. He is the CM of a state and he is under no obligation to celebrate or fulfill the demands of any community, question him on his policies and their execution and not on appeasements.