Hyderabad, Aug. 25 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Anurag Thakur has sparked outrage yet again after a clip of his comments on "Hanuman ji" being the first man to go into space went viral.

During an interaction with students on National Space Day at a PM Shri School in Una, Himachal Pradesh, Thakur asked, "Who was the first space traveller?" When the students answered "Neil Armstrong", Thakur smiled and replied, "Mujhe toh lagta hai Hanuman ji the (I think it was Hanuman ji)."

Neither of the responses is historically accurate. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture into space in 1961, and American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969.

The five-time legislator contin...