Kya Kashi kya Maghar oosar, Jo pai hriday Ram basey mora Jo Kashi tan tajey Kabira, to Ramhi kaun nihora - Kabir Das (Be it Varanasi or the barren land of Maghar, both are same for me, for Ram resides in my heart. Then, if I die in Varanasi and attain salvation, what good does devotion to Ram bring me)
MAGHAR: If he chose the land of ‘Moksh’ — Varanasi — to pitch himself for the Prime Minister’s post in 2014, it is now Maghar, considered the "gateway to hell" where PM Narendra Modi plans to connect with Kabir and his message of unity, just in time for the Lok Sabha elections early next year. A huge public rally has been scheduled at the Sant Kabir Mahaparinirvana Sthali on Thursday in Maghar – a place Kabir is known to have chosen to breathe his last in the 15th century to dispel the myth that whoever dies in Maghar goes to hell.
Situated off the national highway leading to Gorakhpur from the state capital and around 250 km from Lucknow, Modi, apart from addressing the gathering, will pay obeisance at both the mausoleum and samadhi sthal where Hindus and Muslims claim to be holding the remains of Kabir, and also lay the foundation stone of the Kabir Research Institute. Historically, it is the 620th year of Kabir's birth at Varanasi and the 500th year of his death at Maghar.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Sant Kabir Nagar, Sharad Tripathi said, "Modi Ji does continuous campaigning but it is a great co-incidence that he will hold a public meet at Maghar on the 500th death anniversary of Kabir whose message is an inspiration behind Modi ji’s slogan of ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas.’