BJP MLA Vishvaraj Singh speaks with officals aft helium was denied introduction into Udaipur Palace, hours aft helium was anointed the titular caput of the erstwhile royal household of Mewar, successful Udaipur, Monday. (PTI photo)
A time aft spot quality wrong the erstwhile Mewar royal household escalated into chromatic pelting, its recently “anointed” caput and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Nathdwara MLA Vishvaraj Singh Mewar visited the 8th Century Eklingji Temple successful Udaipur’s Kailashpuri colony – considered an important deity successful the erstwhile princely state.
The sojourn by the BJP MLA keeps with the Mewar household customized of visiting deities aft anointment and comes 2 days aft helium was prevented from entering the family’s Udaipur City Palace amid an ongoing spot quality with his uncle Arvind Singh Mewar, who presently has power of the palace and its grounds.
Significantly, Vishvaraj Singh “anointment” arsenic caput of the Mewar household came aft the decease of his father, erstwhile Chittorgarh MP Mahendra Singh Mewar. According to sources, household customized dictates that the “head” sojourn the Dhuni Mata temple located connected the palace grounds and yet sojourn the Eklingji temple to people the “Shok Bhang Rasam”, oregon the extremity of the mourning period.
Heavy constabulary deployment successful the country prevented Vishvaraj Singh from visiting the temple Monday, starring to unit and chromatic pelting and prompting the constabulary to nonstop reinforcements, seal disconnected the country and prohibit assembly nether Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita.
The information arrangements continued to stay successful spot Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the 2 families person blamed the incidental connected each other. At a property league helium held Tuesday, Arvind Singh’s lad Lakshyaraj Singh accused his relative Vishvaraj of “hooliganism” and “forcing his mode into his house”, claiming that the full quality was “happening astatine the behest of almighty radical sitting successful the government”.
Vishvaraj, meanwhile, claims it was his “right” to sojourn the temple. At his ain property briefing the aforesaid day, helium accused the territory medication of “failing to execute its duties”.
“It is my close to sojourn the temple of my ancestors, but I was denied introduction to the palace. I sought enactment from the territory administration, but they did nothing. Even erstwhile stones were pelted from the different side, nary enactment was taken. The medication claimed they lacked capable unit to unfastened the palace gates,” helium said.
In effect to the violence, the territory medication claimed it had taken power of the palace temple and appointed a receiver to negociate it.
“Efforts are ongoing to mediate betwixt some parties. The constabulary are besides actively ensuring the concern remains nether control,” District Collector Arvind Poswal had said Tuesday.
Ghanta Ghar SHO Yogendra Kumar, appointed receiver for the temple, told The Indian Express that determination were nary arrests successful Monday’s clashes and that the constabulary was lone trying to forestall further escalation.
“The temple is presently nether our (police) power and we’re awaiting orders from the elder officials,” helium said.