Who is Vishnu Gupta, chief of Hindu Sena who claims there was a temple at Ajmer Dargah site?

Gupta has successful the past filed a suit connected behalf of Bal Krishna successful the Mathura dispute. He besides had a ‘havan’ for Donald Trump’s occurrence successful the United States statesmanlike predetermination of 2016.

Who is Vishnu Gupta and what is the Hindu Sena?

Gupta, 40, was calved successful Etah successful UP and moved to Delhi astatine a young age. He was influenced aboriginal connected by militant Hindu nationalism, and joined the Shiv Sena’s younker helping arsenic a student. In 2008, Gupta became portion of the Bajrang Dal.

In 2011, Gupta and immoderate others founded the Hindu Sena, an organisation that helium claims has “lakhs of members” now, with units successful “almost each parts of India”. Gupta oregon his organisation are not affiliated with the Shiv Sena, the Sangh Parivar, oregon immoderate of its associated organisations.

On its website, the Hindu Sena says it “aims to reason the Islamisation successful immoderate form, Sharia instrumentality implementation, emotion jihad and Islamic extremism successful India”, and that it would “highlight and protestation and instrumentality ineligible enactment against immoderate person/entity causing harm to the sovereignty of India and Sanatana Dharma”.

What actions has the Hindu Sena led truthful far?

* In January 2014, Hindu Sena was portion of a mob that vandalised the Aam Aadmi Party bureau successful Kaushambi successful Ghaziabad pursuing past AAP person Prashant Bhushan’s proposition that a referendum should beryllium held connected the deployment of the Army successful Jammu and Kashmir.

* In February 2014, Hindu Sena protested extracurricular the bureau of The Caravan mag pursuing its study connected Swami Aseemanand, who was past successful jailhouse successful transportation with the Ajmer Dargah, Mecca Masjid, and Samjhauta Express bombings of 2007. Aseemanand was subsequently acquitted successful each these cases.

* In October 2015, Gupta was detained by Delhi Police for allegedly making a mendacious ailment that beef was being served astatine the Kerala House canteen successful New Delhi. A enactment had erupted with the past Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy condemning the constabulary raid arsenic “highly objectionable”.

* In January 2016, Gupta was arrested aft members of his outfit vandalised the bureau of Pakistan International Airlines successful New Delhi. In August 2016, the outfit had protested past Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s sojourn to Pakistan.

*In May 2016, Gupta and the Hindu Sena organised a havan to guarantee the triumph of Trump successful that year’s statesmanlike election. Gupta past organised events to observe Trump’s birthday, and past his triumph that November. He besides organised protests against the Democratic nominee for the White House, Hillary Clinton.

* In May 2019, Hindu Sena filed a ailment against actor-politician Kamal Haasan astatine Delhi’s Patiala House tribunal for allegedly hurting spiritual sentiments by terming Nathuram Godse, who killed Mahatma Gandhi, arsenic a “Hindu terrorist”.

* In June 2023, the Hindu Sena filed a writ petition successful Delhi High Court against the movie ‘Adipurush’, demanding that it not beryllium certified for nationalist exhibition.

*In January this year, the Hindu Sena defaced signboards connected Delhi’s Babar Road by pasting stickers saying “Ayodhya Marg” implicit them.

*In February, Gupta claimed that helium had received a missive threatening him with dire consequences if helium did not retreat from the Krishna Janmabhoomi case.

* Over the years, Gupta’s outfit has supported the “Balochistan state struggle” successful Pakistan, and has much precocious protested successful enactment of Hindus successful Bangladesh.