Temple demolition: Raj BJP accuses Gehlot of following Babar, Aurangzeb’s footsteps

TIL Desk/National/Jaipur/ The Rajasthan BJP on Friday constituted a five-member committee to probe the demolition of a 300-year-old Shiva temple in Alwar district. The saffron party also accused Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot of following the footsteps of Mughal rulers Babar and Aurangzeb for bulldozing the temples ‘in the name of removing encroachments’. The BJP constituted the five-member panel to probe the demolition of a Shiva temple at Sarai Mohalla in Rajgarh in Alwar district on Friday.

The committee, formed under the chairmanship of Sikar MP Swami Sumedhanand, will visit Rajgarh in three days, prepare a factual report, and hand it over to Rajasthan BJP chief Satish Poonia. Poonia, meanwhile, said that the temple demolition was carried out on the instructions of Gehlot and the state government. “Demolishing a 300-year-old temple is the result of Ashok Gehlot giving liberty to his MLAs,” Poonia said.

BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Lal Meena also slammed the Rajasthan Congress for demolishing the temple and accused them of discrimination and appeasement politics. Deputy Leader of Opposition, Rajendra Singh Rathore, said while addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here that by destroying the 300-year-old temple in Alwar, the Rajasthan government has disturbed communal harmony.