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Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati connected Saturday (January 24, 2026) cautioned against linking religion and authorities for constrictive interests, saying that specified practices ever transportation superior risks.
The erstwhile Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's remarks came amid an ongoing enactment involving the caput of Jyotirmath successful Badrinath, Swami Avimukteshwaranand, and the Magh Mela medication successful Prayagraj.
In a station connected her authoritative X handle, Ms. Mayawati said that not lone successful Uttar Pradesh but besides successful different parts of the country, governmental interference and power successful spiritual festivals, rituals, bathing ceremonies and different spiritual activities person accrued importantly successful caller years.
"This interference is giving emergence to caller disputes, tensions and conflicts, which is not right. It is earthy for radical to consciousness distressed and acrophobic implicit specified developments," she said.
The BSP main said that linking religion with authorities for constrictive governmental gains ever entails dangers, and the ongoing quality successful Prayagraj implicit ritual bathing, marked by communal disrespect and allegations, is simply a caller example.
It would beryllium amended to debar specified situations nether each circumstances, she suggested.
Ms. Mayawati said that the Constitution and the instrumentality recognise actions focused connected nationalist payment arsenic the existent nationalist work and support religion abstracted from politics.
She stressed that this rule should beryllium implemented with the close intent and policy, truthful that governmental leaders tin fulfil their law responsibilities honestly and impartially successful the social, governmental and economical involvement of each sections of society.
The BSP main said radical expect this adjacent successful the existent circumstances and added that the bitter quality implicit ritual bathing successful Prayagraj should beryllium resolved done communal statement astatine the earliest.
She besides extended greetings to the radical connected Uttar Pradesh Day.
The Magh Mela medication had issued a announcement to Swami Avimukteshwaranand connected Monday, seeking clarification connected however helium was projecting himself arsenic the Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, citing a Supreme Court bid that nary spiritual person tin beryllium installed arsenic Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath until the entreaty successful the substance is decided.
Tensions escalated aft Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati was allegedly stopped by the Mela constabulary and medication from taking a beatified dip connected Mauni Amavasya during the Magh Mela, pursuing which helium criticised the Mela administration.
