MP Education Minister sets wrong example on Teacher's Day; ridicules transgenders

It seems like the leaders of Bhartiya Janata Party are involved in a weird kind of competition as to who can speak the most nonsensical stuff that's possible. After BJP MLA from Mumbai Ram Kadam told youngsters during a Dahi Handi event on Janamashtmi that he will abduct girls for them if they did not respond to their advances, the next BJP member to join the bandwagon is Madhya Pradesh's Education Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah.

Addressing a gathering on the ocassion of Teacher's Day, Shah ridiculed transgenders of the nation. Speaking to youngsters, the education minister said that if they won't clap in the honour of their teacher, they will have to go and clap in front of every home in their next birth. 

"Agar Guru ke samman mein apne taaliyan nahi bajayi to agle janam mein ghar ghar ja kar taaliyan bajani padengi", Shah said. Such an insensitive comment coming from an education minister calls for some introspection for the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government in the central Indian state. The surprising part about his comment was that after he had made the derogatory statement about transgenders, he even laughed. 

This is not the first instance when a BJP leader has made an insensitive or unscientific remark in a public gathering. Recently Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Dev had said that ducks raise the oxygen level in water bodies when they swim. 

More recently, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was criticised for advising people in Mathura to read the Hanuman Chalisa to get rid of the notorious monkeys in the city. Speaking on the Ram Mandir issue, Adityanath had said that the date of construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya will be decided by Lord Ram himself. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks about a tea stall owner making tea from gutter gas had also left social media in splits. We wonder who is going to be next in line to make insensitive, regressive and unscientific statements unabashedly.