Agra: Amid the raging debate over Lord Hanuman’s caste, a BJP functionary, Raghuraj Singh -- who is chairman of an advisory committee in labour departmen -- on Sunday claimed that Lord

Hanuman

was a “Thakur”.

While Singh stated this while interacting with the media in Mathura, in Aligarh, Lok Dal national president Chaudhary Sunil Singh claimed that Hanuman was a “farmer”, who had fought against the rich Ravan. “The Hanumans of today have to fight rich industrialists like Ambani and Adani," said Chaudhary while interacting with media on the occasion of birth anniversary of former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh.

Raghuraj Singh, however defended CM Yogi’s remark on Lord Hanuman by saying that his statement was misinterpreted.