The Hindu seer has demanded Moon to be named as ‘Hindu Rashtra’ after the Chandrayaan-3’s successful soft landing on the lunar surface.
Swami Chakrapani Maharaj, a Hindu seer has also said the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft's landing site should be declared as the ‘rashtra’s’ capital.
Swami Chakrapani Maharaj, who is also the All India Hindu Mahasabha national president called on the government to assert its ownership of the Moon before other religions do and demanded that Parliament pass a resolution to this effect, NDTV reported.
Following ISRO's Chandrayaan-3's historic soft landing on the Moon's south pole last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the site where the lander touched down will be known as 'Shiv Shakti Point'.
Sharing a video on social media, Swami Chakrapani Maharaj said that the Indian government should act quickly so that "no terrorist" can reach there.
"The moon should be declared a Hindu Sanatan Rashtra by Parliament. The landing place of Chandrayaan 3 should be developed as its capital, "Shiv Shakti Point", so that no terrorist with a jihadist mentality can reach there," he said in the video.
Chakrapani is known for his outlandish remarks.
In 2020, during Covid-19 pandemic he organised a "gaumutra party" in Delhi where he and his fellow All India Hindu Mahasabha members drank cow urine to ward off the disease.
"Coronavirus has come because of the people who kill and eat animals. When you kill an animal, it creates a sort of energy that causes destruction in that place," he said at the event, as quoted by news agency PTI.
"They (global leaders) should get cow urine imported from India because the almighty resides only in the Indian cow and not in any foreign breed."
In 2018, during the devastating floods in Kerala, Chakrapani said those who eat beef in the state should not receive any help.
Earlier this year, he set up a "Dharma Censor Board" to monitor content in Bollywood films, webseries music videos, etc. that insults the Hindu religion.
