Reacting to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s comments on leaders wearing "gerua" attire, spiritual leader Jagadguru Rambhadracharya countered the Congress chief saying "bhagwa is a colour of Bhagwan". "Where is it written? Should goons be into politics? Should loafers do politics? 'Bhagwadhari' should do politics. Bhagwa is a colour of 'Bhagwan'.
Shivaji hoisted the same Bhagwa flag and united the whole nation and Maharashtra. Bhagwadhari should do politics. Suited-booted should not do politics in India," Jagadguru Rambhadracharya said.
Kharge’s initial comments sparked a political storm when he without taking names tagetted Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath saying, “Many leaders live in the guise of sadhus and have now become politicians. Some have even become chief ministers. They wear ‘gerua’ clothes and have no hair on their heads.
.. I would say to the BJP, either wear white clothes or, if you are a sanyasi, wear ‘gerua’ clothes, but then get out of politics.
” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) responded to Kharge’s remarks by denouncing them as anti-Hindu and anti-Sanatan. BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla stated that the Congress’s stance reflects a pattern of disdain for Hindu practices. "This is the true philosophy and DNA of Congress which is anti-Hindu and anti-Sanatan,” he said.
“This is the same Congress that spoke about ‘saffron terrorism,’ ‘Hindu terror’...
They will never say such things about other faiths,” said .