Union Minister Sanjay Paswan’s gesture of honouring 51 witch doctors, occultists, sorcerers and faith healers has raised a controversy with RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav demanding that he be sacked from the Vajpayee ministry for promoting superstition among people.‘‘Sanjay Paswan should be immediately sacked from the Union Ministry for flouting the provisions of the Prevention of Witchcraft Practices Act, 1999 of Bihar and for spreading superstition among the people,’’ Yadav told reporters here.When the world is laying stress on development of a scientific temperament, Paswan, Union MoS for Human Resources Development, ‘‘is busy patronising superstition in society,’’ he said.
