A video of the leaders attending the event went viral on social media, leading to outrage on social media as people termed it as an try and appease Ram Rahim’s followers who’ve a sizable vote percentage in Karnal
BJP leaders from Karnal, consisting of municipal enterprise mayor Renu Bala Gupta, attended a web satsang right here of rape convict and now on parole dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim held in Uttar Pradesh, triggering an issue on social media with human beings accusing their participation within the event as a politically prompted pass.
Gupta, who become followed with the aid of senior deputy mayor Rajesh Aggi and deputy mayor Naveen Kumar, attended the digital satsang at Karnal’s Kambopura village and arrangements were made in order that the fans ought to be a part of the digital satsang on Tuesday. The satsang changed into prepared in Barnawa in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh.
A video of the leaders attending the event went viral on social media, leading to outrage on social media as humans termed it as an attempt to appease Ram Rahim’s followers who have a tremendous vote percentage in Karnal.
However, the BJP leaders clarified that they’d long past there at the invitation of the followers of controversial dera head.
Talking to Hindustan Times, Gupta said that her go to to the satsang and inviting the dera head to Karnal for some other cleanliness drive must no longer be taken into consideration as a political move and that she has simply appreciated the efforts he had made to maintain the town easy by means of launching the cleanliness drive in May 2017.
In the video, Gupta ought to seen talking stay to the dera head through a video call and looking for advantages of the self-styled godaman and calling him ‘pitaji’. She additionally entreated him to come Karnal and release a special cleanliness drive as he had finished before his conviction.
“We are social people and we should visit such programmes if humans have invited us and I don’t think that we have performed some thing wrong,” she added.
Ram Rahim is on parole for 40 days.
Senior deputy mayor Aggi stated that their go to has nothing to do with politics as there are lots of fans of the dera head in his ward who had invited him to attend the langar and satsang. “I remained there for simplest few minutes and lower back,” he said.
Deputy mayor Kumar, who himself is a follower of the dera head stated that it was a routine visit on the invite of the followers and it has not anything to do with politics. “We cannot deny the human beings of my ward and it become just a short go to,” he delivered. Kumar stated that several other leaders, which includes BJP’s district president Yogender Rana had also attended satsang.