HARIDWAR: A group of seers organising ‘pratikar yagya’ (revenge ceremony) in Haridwar on January 16 to protest police action in the Dharam Sansad hate speech case have given a call for the ritual to be held nationwide and not be limited to just Haridwar.
Swami Prabodhananda, president of the 21-member core committee of seers constituted to hold the yagya, told TOI, “We have asked seers to organise the ceremony in their respective cities on January 16.”
Meanwhile, Juna akhara Mahamandaleshwar Yati Narsinghanand has said that all those booked in the Dharam Sansad hate speech case will attend the ‘pratikar yagya’ in Haridwar.
Among those booked for delivering “hate speeches” at the conclave, held from December 17-19, are Jitendra Narayan Tyagi alias Waseem Rizvi, former chairman, Shia Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh, Yati Narsinghanand, the controversial priest of Dasna temple in Ghaziabad, and seers Dharamdas, Sadhvi Annapurna, and Sindhu Sagar.
The yagya in Haridwar was earlier planned on a large scale. But keeping in view the latest Covid-19 guidelines, it has been scaled down. “Only local seers and other Hindus will attend the ceremony to be held at Bairagi camp,” Prabodhananda said, adding that” the ceremony will now be organised throughout the country. Seers and other members of the Hindu community will take part in the yagyas in a show of solidarity with the movement launched against jihad.”
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