Many women delivered sons after eating mangoes from my orchard: Sambhaji Bhide

June 11, 2018 20:04

Controversial Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide has said that a number of couples were blessed with sons after eating mangoes from his orchard.

"Mangoes are powerful and nutritious. Some women who ate mangoes of my garden have given birth to sons," Bhide said addressing a gathering in Nashik last night.

During his speech, Bhide gave various references from the Ramayana and Mahabharata and attacked the current political and social system.

Bhide, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist who heads the Shiv Pratishthan Hindustan, is an accused in the January 1 Bhima-Koregaon caste violence case.

One person had died during the clashes between members of the Dalit and Maratha communities around Bhima-Koregaon village in Pune district during the bicentenary event of the Bhima-Koregaon battle in which British forces comprising a large number of Dalit soldiers had defeated the Peshwas, who represented the Maratha empire.

Dalits view the 1818 battle as the defeat of 'casteist' Peshwas, who were Brahmins.

Bhide was booked in the violence case along with another Hindutva leader Milind Ekbote.

However, unlike Ekbote he was never arrested in the case. His outfit enjoys a sizable clout in Sangli, Satara, and Kolhapur districts of western Maharashtra.

Bhide was in Nashik to deliver a lecture on a movement launched by him for setting up a '32 maund' golden throne at historic Raigad fort, the erstwhile capital of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's Maratha kingdom.

The 'maund' or 'mann' is the anglicised name for a traditional unit of mass used in British India. One maund was considered equivalent to 37.32 kg. -- PTI

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