A police complaint has been lodged against a Bengali poet in north Bengal’s Siliguri town for allegedly hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus.

Srijato Bandopadhyay posted the controversial 12-line poem on Facebook at 8:25pm on March 19, the day Aditya Nath was sworn in as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Arnab Sarkar, a resident of Bagha Jatin colony in Pradhan Nagar area, filed the complaint on Monday and wrote that the poem wounded “the feelings of each Hindu through the use of distasteful words”.

“The police was very reluctant to accept the complaint,” Sarkar told HT, demanding Bandyopadhyay’s arrest.