Bashir Badr's effigies burnt, controversy and theft at his house

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Bashir Badr has been in the news for wrong reasons lately. First it was the controversy surrounding his statement that he could play the role of all prophets from Adam.....and later of Satan as well...

'Hazrat Aadam se le kar har paighambar aur unke aagey Shaitaan tak ta roop dhar sakta hoon'. [This is not the full statement, he had made the offending statement brazenly and should not be reproduced in full]

No sooner did the statement was published in Madhya Pradesh, than people came out on streets and his effigies were burnt. There was a wave of anger. The statement could not be retracted because he had said it on camera.

Meanwhile, in a mushaira, Munawwar Rana had barrely read the first stanza of his couplet that Badar who was on stage itself said 'Lahaul Wilaquat' that was heard by the vast crowd as the mike was in the front and scores of loudspeakers blared out the Lahaul around the vast ground in Bhopal.

Angered by this 'bad-tahzibi' the local leaders and youths beat up his effigy, held demonstrations and protested the statements. There was wide condemnation. The most senior Urdu poets of Bhopal including Ishrat Qadri came on television and said that Badar had lost his mental balance.

Now thieves have struck at his house. And people were wondering what thieves would have taken from his house as large part of his poetry is nothing but excerpts from past and picked up from little-known poets whose works he slightly altered to suit present day needs. Wallah Alam.

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