A police safety gunner supplied to Mahant Raju Das, head priest of the revered Hanuman Garhi temple in Ayodhya, was withdrawn after he had a heated change Friday night time with the District Justice of the Peace over the BJP’s electoral defeat within the temple city parliamentary constituency of Faizabad.
Mahant Das confirmed up at a evaluate assembly known as by UP cupboard ministers Surya Pratap Shahi and Jaiveer Singh and blamed the district administration’s current actions for the BJP’s defeat in Faizabad. This led to an argument with District Justice of the Peace Nitish Kumar.
On Saturday, Mahant Das mentioned he advised individuals on the assembly that social gathering employees alone shouldn’t be held liable for the defeat of the BJP – its two-term MP Lallu Singh misplaced to SP’s Awadhesh Prasad – as a result of the district administration was equally at fault.
In accordance with the Mahant, the district administration served notices to the individuals of Ayodhya, directing them to vacate properties (for redevelopment works), simply earlier than the elections and this to anger in opposition to the ruling social gathering.
“It was round 11 pm Friday after I had an argument with the DM who, together with the SSP, left the assembly instantly. I stepped out after two minutes, solely to seek out that the police gunner for my safety was now not there. I used to be advised that he had been known as again instantly,” Mahant Das advised The Indian Express.
“I’m not going to put in writing to any senior authority on this regard. Santo ki sarkar me santo ka apmaan ho raha hai (sants are being humiliated within the authorities of sants),” he mentioned.
Reached for remark, District Justice of the Peace Kumar advised The Indian Specific: “A course of was already underway for the withdrawal of his three police gunners ever since we learnt that three felony instances had been lodged in opposition to Raju Das in 2013, 2017 and 2023. Two gunners had been withdrawn and the third has been withdrawn now.”
“The gunners got to him on his request stating he faces a life risk. However we’ve been receiving complaints about Raju Das misusing the police gunners by threatening individuals. He has additionally been utilizing foul language in opposition to the administration and folks of Ayodhya,” Kumar mentioned.
Surya Pratap Shahi, UP Agriculture Minister and minister in-charge of Ayodhya district, advised The Indian Specific, “We had evaluate conferences over the Lok Sabha elections and growth initiatives. The election evaluate assembly was held with leaders of the organisation and a separate assembly was held with round 5 district administration officers. Mahant Raju Das was not invited to the assembly however he reached there. Nothing occurred between him and the District Justice of the Peace earlier than me within the assembly. No matter occurred between them was outdoors.”
On Wednesday and Thursday, a two-member panel comprising UP BJP president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary and Braj area president Durvijay Singh Shakya held closed-door evaluate conferences in all 5 Meeting segments of the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency. Leaders of the Awadh area had been additionally current within the conferences the place suggestions was taken from mandal unit employees on the explanations for the social gathering’s defeat.
Anti-incumbency in opposition to Lallu Singh, his remarks on how the BJP wanted 400 seats to “change the Structure”, complaints concerning the native administration, ignoring native issues had been among the many components recognized as the explanations for the defeat in Faizabad.
“Celebration leaders mentioned the general public was very upset with the Ayodhya district administration and the inaction of the federal government on complaints in opposition to officers. On the day of polling, officers of Ayodhya Growth Authority (ADA) began measuring land that was to be acquired for growth of an Aero Metropolis township close to the airport,” a BJP chief mentioned, including that “the general public was already not in help of the proposed land acquisition”.
Of the 5 Meeting segments within the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat, the BJP solely received Ayodhya Sadar, however the margin dropped considerably from 25,587 votes in 2019 to 4,667 votes this time.
One other chief claimed the Opposition circulated a video during which Lallu Singh was heard saying that the BJP wanted 400 seats to vary the Structure. This, he mentioned, labored in opposition to the BJP.
Dalit votes had been vital in turning the tide in direction of the SP, the chief mentioned.
“The SP fielded a Pasi (Dalit) candidate Awadhesh Prasad. There are over 3 lakh Pasi votes in Faizabad. Previously, they’d been voting for BJP. This time, they shifted to the SP as they had been upset with Lallu Singh’s comment,” the chief mentioned.
One other BJP chief reportedly advised the panel that merchants in Ayodhya didn’t help the social gathering as a result of they had been upset with “the hike in varied municipal company taxes and automobile challans”.