Madhya Pradesh: Ban on cellphone at Mahakal sparks Cong-BJP spat
5 min readBy Express News Service
BHOPAL: Almost every week earlier than Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra enters Madhya Pradesh, which can go by means of Ujjain’s Mahakal temple, a political controversy has erupted within the state. A couple of days in the past, the Mahakal temple administration banned using cell phones contained in the sanctum to forestall the capturing of visuals, a choice that the opposition Congress has linked to Rahul’s yatra by which he’s scheduled to supply prayers contained in the temple within the first week of December.
“The BJP government is so scared with our leader’s visit to the Mahakal temple that it has pressured the temple management to take this decision. Six days back, I went to the same temple and offered prayers, but there was no such ban. The reason for the sudden decision is clear: stop the publicity of our leader offering prayers at the temple,” stated former state regulation minister and Congress MLA PC Sharma.
Echoing comparable views, one other former state minister and senior Congress MLA Sajjan Singh Verma (thought of near state celebration chief Kamal Nath) stated, “The temple decision exposes the real mindset of the BJP. However, the new rule will neither have any effect on Rahul Gandhi nor the Congress.” The ruling BJP and the temple administration denied any political hyperlinks to the temple determination.
“The government has not taken this decision. The ban has been imposed by the administrative committee of the temple. It’s wrong to derive political meaning from it,” stated the state’s Home Minister Narottam Mishra. BJP MP from Ujjain Anil Firoziya stated the ban on cell phones was proposed on November 12 to cease videography of the sanctum. There have been situations the place movies filmed by kids have been blended with Bollywood songs earlier than being posted on social media platforms, triggering controversy. “It’s to prevent such incidents that the ban has been imposed on cell-phones inside the garbhagriha.”
The Ujjain district collector Ashish Singh, who’s the ex-officio head of the temple’s administration committee says a slew of selections that have been taken just lately by the committee in session with monks, included banning cell-phones contained in the garbhgriha, as many devotees have complained of inconvenience. During the course of round fortnight-long Yatra in MP’s Malwa-Nimar area (masking six districts and at the least 25 meeting constituencies of south-west and west MP) Rahul will provide prayers at Jyotirlingas, first at Omkareshwar temple in Khandwa district this month and later at Mahakal in Ujjain within the first week of December, across the time when neighbouring Gujarat might be voting in two phases.
Meanwhile, the visuals of state Congress chief Kamal Nath reducing a temple-shaped multi-layered cake bearing pictures of Lord Hanuman and saffron flag, have prompted the BJP to focus on Nath and Congress for “hurting Hindu religious sentiments”. The video went viral on Wednesday, by which Nath was seen reducing the cake in his meeting constituency Chhindwara, three days forward of his 76th birthday which falls on Friday. While CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan assailed Nath and Congress, dubbing them Bagula Bhagat (false devotees), the state’s Home Minister Narottam Mishra accused Nath of being impressed by invaders Muhammad Ghori and Mahmud Ghaznavi.
BICKERING ON MOBILE BAN
Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra will go by means of Ujjain’s Mahakal temple in its Madhya Pradesh leg within the first week of December
The temple administration has banned using cell phones contained in the sanctum
Congress has linked the ban on cell telephones to Rahul Gandhi’s proposed prayers contained in the temple
The ruling BJP and the temple administration denied any political hyperlinks to the temple determination
BHOPAL: Almost every week earlier than Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra enters Madhya Pradesh, which can go by means of Ujjain’s Mahakal temple, a political controversy has erupted within the state. A couple of days in the past, the Mahakal temple administration banned using cell phones contained in the sanctum to forestall the capturing of visuals, a choice that the opposition Congress has linked to Rahul’s yatra by which he’s scheduled to supply prayers contained in the temple within the first week of December.
“The BJP government is so scared with our leader’s visit to the Mahakal temple that it has pressured the temple management to take this decision. Six days back, I went to the same temple and offered prayers, but there was no such ban. The reason for the sudden decision is clear: stop the publicity of our leader offering prayers at the temple,” stated former state regulation minister and Congress MLA PC Sharma.
Echoing comparable views, one other former state minister and senior Congress MLA Sajjan Singh Verma (thought of near state celebration chief Kamal Nath) stated, “The temple decision exposes the real mindset of the BJP. However, the new rule will neither have any effect on Rahul Gandhi nor the Congress.” The ruling BJP and the temple administration denied any political hyperlinks to the temple determination.
“The government has not taken this decision. The ban has been imposed by the administrative committee of the temple. It’s wrong to derive political meaning from it,” stated the state’s Home Minister Narottam Mishra. BJP MP from Ujjain Anil Firoziya stated the ban on cell phones was proposed on November 12 to cease videography of the sanctum. There have been situations the place movies filmed by kids have been blended with Bollywood songs earlier than being posted on social media platforms, triggering controversy. “It’s to prevent such incidents that the ban has been imposed on cell-phones inside the garbhagriha.”
The Ujjain district collector Ashish Singh, who’s the ex-officio head of the temple’s administration committee says a slew of selections that have been taken just lately by the committee in session with monks, included banning cell-phones contained in the garbhgriha, as many devotees have complained of inconvenience. During the course of round fortnight-long Yatra in MP’s Malwa-Nimar area (masking six districts and at the least 25 meeting constituencies of south-west and west MP) Rahul will provide prayers at Jyotirlingas, first at Omkareshwar temple in Khandwa district this month and later at Mahakal in Ujjain within the first week of December, across the time when neighbouring Gujarat might be voting in two phases.
Meanwhile, the visuals of state Congress chief Kamal Nath reducing a temple-shaped multi-layered cake bearing pictures of Lord Hanuman and saffron flag, have prompted the BJP to focus on Nath and Congress for “hurting Hindu religious sentiments”. The video went viral on Wednesday, by which Nath was seen reducing the cake in his meeting constituency Chhindwara, three days forward of his 76th birthday which falls on Friday. While CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan assailed Nath and Congress, dubbing them Bagula Bhagat (false devotees), the state’s Home Minister Narottam Mishra accused Nath of being impressed by invaders Muhammad Ghori and Mahmud Ghaznavi.
BICKERING ON MOBILE BAN
Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra will go by means of Ujjain’s Mahakal temple in its Madhya Pradesh leg within the first week of December
The temple administration has banned using cell phones contained in the sanctum
Congress has linked the ban on cell telephones to Rahul Gandhi’s proposed prayers contained in the temple
The ruling BJP and the temple administration denied any political hyperlinks to the temple determination
