Right-wing outfit chief held for removing Sai Baba’s statues from Varanasi temples

“We person arrested Ajay Sharma for inciting people’s sentiments. There were complaints against him by priests that they were being forced to region the statues of Sai Baba,” said Chowk constabulary presumption in-charge Vimal Kumar Mishra.

Varanasi Police Commissioner Mohit Agarwal confirmed Sharma’s arrest, saying, “Two FIRs person been registered again him. He has been sent to jail.”

A run was started by the Sanatan Rakshak Dal to region the statues of Sai Baba from the temples of Varanasi, claiming that successful Sanatan Dharma determination was nary abstraction for supplication of the “dead” alongside gods successful temples.

Sharma, who claims to beryllium raising the contented for the past fewer years, came to limelight arsenic helium started reaching the temples successful Varanasi with his squad and removing the idols of Sai Baba and uploading the videos of their visits connected societal media.

In the past fewer days, his videos connected societal media showed them removing tiny statues utilizing hand-held tools and covering ample ones with a achromatic cloth. He had besides been visiting the temples asking the priests erstwhile and wherefore the statue successful question was installed and would springiness them an ultimatum to region it immediately.

Two days back, helium uploaded a video claiming to person successfully removed the idol of Sai Baba from the Bhagwan Purushottam Triyambkeshwar Darbar Temple and claiming that the shrine was escaped of “Chand Miyan alias Sai”. In yet different video uploaded 3 days back, helium is seen doing the aforesaid happening astatine the Bara Ganesh Mandir.

When contacted, Sharma justified his actions, saying, “Neither successful the Bhagwat Gita, nor Purana person immoderate notation of Sai Baba. People person been misled. The efforts person been going connected for the past 4 years to marque them alert and present the statues are being removed arsenic determination is nary notation of immoderate “pret puja” successful Sanatan Dharma.”

“I americium not saying that I bash not worship him. It is conscionable that the dormant are worshiped personally and not on with gods. Those wanting to bash it tin instrumentality the statues from maine and worship them astatine their homes,” helium added.

Sharma had claimed to person removed statues from implicit 10 temples successful Varanasi and appealed to each the followers of ‘Sanatan Dharma’ to instrumentality up the question further.