Responding to music director and AAP supporter Vishal Dadlani’s ‘monkery’ tweet, Jain religious leader Tarun Sagar said, “I don’t think he (Vishal Dadlani) knows anything about Jainism or our beliefs.”
Vishal Dadlani’s tweet mocking the Jain monk not only outraged the Jain community, but also Delhi Chief MinisterArvind Kejriwal, who expressed his thoughts on the issue on Twitter and sought forgiveness of the religious leader. In fact, the backlash against Dadlani was such that he severed his political ties with Aam Aadmi Party.
Dadlani later apologised to the Jain monk saying he “made a mistake by offending the peaceful Jain community”, to which Tarun Sagar said, “He has a right to differ, criticise. I don’t care what people say about me.”
Speaking to News18, Tarun Sagar said that Satyender Jain came to apologise for the comments made by Vishal. “I told him I was not angry about it and that I have forgiven them. The person who made the comments did not know about Digambar saints,” he said.
The Haryana government had invited the Jain monk, who appeared in nude, to deliver a lecture ‘Kadve Vachan’ in the Assembly on Friday. A day later, Dadlani in a tweet termed Tarun Sagar’s speech as “monkery”. However, that particular tweet was later removed.
The esteemed Digambar Jain guru Tarun Sagar spoke of the marriage between dharma and politics, terrorism and female foeticide.
The music composer decided to air his opinion on the Jain guru via the social media site, mocking the fact that the spiritual leader gave the speech in the nude. He used the hashtag #NoKachcheDin along with the tweet, which following the outrage was deleted. Furthermore, Dadlani also criticised people for “defending the monk’s colossal idiocy”.
(Sourced from agencies, Feature image courtesy:hindi.oneindia.com)
