BJP leader and actor Krishna Kumar said that in the past, he used to give porridge to the workers in his house by digging it in the ground. In a video published on the YouTube channel of Krishnakumar’s spouse Sindhu Krishna, Krishnakumar makes light of digging a hole in the ground and giving food.
Krishnakumar’s presentation of the practice of burying food in the ground to the backward castes as part of the Varnashram system, as if it were a very natural occurrence, is receiving a lot of criticism on social media.
Critics allege that Krishnakumar’s words take pride in the untouchability practices practiced in his home in the past.
While extolling the benefits of old kanji, he remembers that in his house in the past, kanji was given to workers by digging it in the ground.
‘When we were staying in Tripunithura, people would come to clean the paddy fields. They come in the morning with a cup of black tea. When it’s eleven o’clock, they have enough pajanchoor.
On that day, mother would have taken some curries and curries. A small hole will be dug in the field where the work has been done and Vattaila will be placed in it. Porridge and curry will be poured into it.
The BJP leader said that when he remembers the sight of the workers eating pagankanji from a hole in the soil spread with chempila, he still craves.
When I was staying at Hotel Marriott in Kochi, I had Paganganji for breakfast. Krishnakumar describes the memories he had when he saw it.
Although the footage was from five months ago, it is now being discussed on social media. Krishnakumar’s words are receiving severe criticism on social media.
The criticism on social media is that the BJP leader is romanticizing one of the worst practices of the caste system.
