The live telecast of the event was launched by Neelkanth Tiwari, Tourism, Culture, Religious Affairs Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Pravesh Sahib Singh Verma, MP Uttar Pradesh.
Gifting a copy of Ramayana, Uttarakhand tourism minister Satpal Maharaj urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to draw wisdom from Ravana's defeat in the epic and put his resources to a better use.
With a lot of poverty porn and a cunning usage of issues of untouchability and lack of education, Pradip Panda's poem depicted abject sexualisation and objectification of women in the Hindu goddess' name, a theme often used by leftists to present their creations as 'intellectual'.