SP's Swami Prasad Maurya asks why Lakshmi has 4 hands, gets rebuked by party

Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya's asking on X how Goddess Lakshmi can have four hands has attracted sharp rebuke from many, including his own party, whose spokesperson asked him to «stop harming the party.» The leader had earlier made headlines with his controversial remarks on Ramcharitmanas and Badrinath.
Among those who took exception to his comment were leaders from the Congress and the BJP.

Maurya in a post on X on Sunday, said he worshipped his wife on Diwali as she is the Lakshmi of his house, and in a true sense, a homemaker.
"… every child born in every religion, caste, race, colour and country of the whole world has two hands, two legs, two ears, two eyes and a nose with two holes.

There is only a head, stomach and back; if a child with four hands, eight hands, ten hands, twenty hands and a thousand hands has not been born till date, then how can Lakshmi be born with four hands?" Maurya said in his post.

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• «If you want to worship Goddess Lakshmi, then worship and respect your wife who is a goddess in true sense because she fulfils the responsibility of nurturing, happiness, prosperity, food and care of your family with great devotion,» read his post.
  Taking an apparent dislike to what he said, SP spokesperson IP Singh asked him to stop harming the party.
  He said the party does