Naynaben Pedhadiya, Mayor of Rajkot city, has sparked a contention aft photos of her travel to Prayagraj to be the Maha Kumbh successful her authoritative conveyance went viral. The president of the lasting committee of BJP-ruled Rajkot Municipal Corporation, however, defended her, saying she had taken indispensable permissions for utilizing the vehicle.
Pedhadiya visited the Maha Kumbh past week with her hubby and a fewer BJP leaders and corporators. Photos and videos purportedly showing the Mayor’s authoritative conveyance being utilized to bent retired bedewed apparel aft a beatified dip astatine Prayagraj were wide shared connected societal media. The absorption Congress targeted the ruling enactment implicit the issue. Pedhadiya claimed connected Tuesday that she utilized the conveyance for the “holy intent of pilgrimage”, and not for fun. She had obtained owed permissions, and volition wage for the conveyance usage astatine a complaint of Rs 12 per kilometre though the prescribed complaint is Rs 2 per kilometre, she added.
However, the Opposition enactment took potshots astatine her. “The politician went connected a pilgrimage to lavation her sins utilizing nationalist money. May the Lord judge her prayers truthful that incidents similar TRP Game Zone occurrence (in which 27 persons died) does not hap ever again successful the city, and whitethorn her sins incurred owed to this get washed off,” Congress person Vashram Sagathiya said successful a video message.
“A pilgrimage connected nationalist wealth does not succeed. The mode successful which the authorities conveyance was utilized to adust bedewed apparel is reprehensible, it is not appropriate,” helium said adding that it was not close for her to instrumentality others on successful her authoritative vehicle. “We request that the aged solution of the RMC, which has made her travel imaginable astatine specified a ridiculously debased rate, beryllium instantly revoked,” helium added.