Brushing aside a top seer's objection to the 'Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi' slogan being raised by party workers to seek votes, Bihar BJP today said it was within its democratic right to coin a slogan to woo voters.
"There is no valid reason for anybody to object to the popular slogan 'Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi' which is aimed at wooing all households in the country in the larger goal to make Narendra Modi the next Prime Minister of the country," senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters in a reply to a question.
"We don't take seriously what any seer may have said," he said when told about Dwarka Peeth Shankarachayra Swaroopanand Saraswati's rant against Modi being elevated as a deity by the BJP workers by raising this slogan.
The former Bihar deputy chief minister said that there were any number of Shankaracharyas in the country and "we cannot take all of them seriously."
Stating that the slogan, coined by a BJP leader from Bihar, has served the purpose and made the Gujarat Chief Minister's prime ministerial bid a talk of all households in the country, Modi said there was no religious imputations in this slogan which could hurt anybody's sentiments.
Earlier, Dwarka Peeth Shankarachayra Swaroopanand Saraswati has raised objection to the slogan in favour of Narendra Modi and lodged a strong protest with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat asking him to stop raising of such slogan.
Meanwhile, taking note of the seer's objections, the Gujarat Chief Minister has, in a tweet, urged party workers to refrain from raising the slogan during campaign.
