“It can be said that Narendra Modi is an ‘ansh’ of Lord Ram and Vishnu who takes care of us,” Ranaut had said last week.

(L-R) Congress candidate for Mandi, Himachal Pradesh PWD minister Vikramaditya Singh; and actress Kangana Ranaut, the BJP candidate for Mandi. (Express Archives, Kangana Ranaut/Instagram)

By  Saurabh Parashar

Himachal Pradesh PWD minister Vikramaditya Singh Friday invoked his family’s “age-old connection with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh” and the anti-conversion law brought by his father and former chief minister Virbhadra Singh to target BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Mandi Kangana Ranaut on what he termed as “an attack on the Sanatan Dharma and Dev Samaj culture of Himachal Pradesh”.

Vikramaditya, who has been fielded by the Congress to take on Ranaut in Mandi, the seat that his mother currently represents, urged RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to intervene and ensure that there are “no more attacks on state’s Dev sanskriti, Dev lok niti and Sanatan Dharma”.

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