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The Congress connected Sunday condemned the alleged mistreatment of Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand astatine the Prayagraj Magh Mela, accusing the BJP-led authorities of disrupting a centuries-old spiritual contented by not allowing him to instrumentality the customary ‘royal bath’.
Addressing a property conference, Congress spokesperson and president of the party’s Media and Publicity Department Pawan Khera said that the incidental exposed what helium described arsenic the BJP’s duplicity successful matters of faith. He sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s involution and demanded an apology to the assemblage of saints.
“Their [the BJP] concern is religion and their religion is business,”Mr. Khera said, alleging that traditions followed adjacent during the Mughal and British periods had been interrupted nether the contiguous dispensation. The BJP, helium said, had “used religion to seizure powerfulness but is present insulting Hindu saints”.
Mr. Khera screened a video purportedly showing a confrontation betwixt the Shankaracharya’s supporters and the police, alleging that the seer’s disciples were assaulted and that helium was prevented from proceeding successful a palanquin for the Mauni Amavasya royal bath.
Calling the incidental a betrayal of faith, Mr. Khera said the authorities was “biting the manus that feeds it”. He alleged that the Shankaracharya was being targeted for raising questions connected issues specified arsenic the consecration of Ram temple successful Ayodhya earlier it’s completion, alleged mismanagement astatine the Mahakumbh, and reports of bodies floating successful the Ganga during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Drawing a comparison, Mr. Khera questioned wherefore Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) main Mohan Bhagwat was provided Z-plus information portion restrictions were imposed connected the Shankaracharya and his followers. “Does the BJP see Mr. Bhagwat a bigger spiritual person than the Shankaracharya,” helium asked.
Responding to a query connected the Shankaracharya expressing fearfulness for his information and suspecting a imaginable conspiracy successful the guise of a stampede, Mr. Khera said, “It was disturbing that a elder Hindu seer felt insecure successful a State governed by what helium termed a “triple-engine government”.
He said that the Shankaracharya had gone connected an indefinite accelerated successful protestation against the incident, but alleged that the authorities had shown nary sensitivity. Mr. Khera besides alleged that a coordinated online run was being tally against the seer for questioning the government.
The Congress person further criticised the Uttar Pradesh Government implicit the redevelopment of the Manikarnika ghat and the alleged vandalism of a statue of Devi Ahilyabai Holkar successful Varanasi.
