MP: Bajrang Sena merges with congress forward of meeting polls

The Hindutva organisation Bajrang Sena merged with Congress in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, elevating the political temperature within the state months earlier than the upcoming legislative election. The former alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party had strayed from the appropriate path and had cheated the citizens to achieve energy within the state.

The merger came about throughout an occasion on Tuesday night on the Congress state workplace in Bhopal, within the presence of the president of the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee and former chief minister Kamal Nath. He was offered with a mace and different mementoes by Bajrang Sena members, who additionally raised “Jai Shriram” slogans on the event.

A Bhagwa (saffron) rally was held beforehand, with a whole bunch of younger individuals carrying saffron scarves and waving saffron flags in attendance. Some of them even carried out conventional martial artwork varieties to the sounds of drums.

The union of the outfit with the Congress is credited to Deepak Joshi, a former minister who final month defected from the BJP to hitch the Congress. He reportedly shares a good relationship with the leaders of the right-wing group.

Bajrang Sena was based in Chhatarpur in 2013. Raghunandan Sharma, the outfit’s convener, is a founding member of the BJP and has ties to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The group has a historical past of supporting the BJP and has been actively concerned in cow safety in addition to efforts to “unify Hindus by breaking the caste system.” It can also be recognized for protesting on non secular and social points.

The Bajrang Sena’s nationwide president Ranveer Pateria and coordinator Raghunandan Sharma introduced the merger within the presence of Deepak Joshi.

According to the previous, they’ve embraced the political philosophy of the Congress in addition to the viewpoints of the state social gathering chief wholeheartedly.
Additionally, he acknowledged that they had been devoted to overthrowing the BJP administration, which is understood for its treachery, mendacity, and dishonesty, and establishing a Congress authorities led by Kamal Nath via the 2023 meeting elections.

Notably, Congress, which is at present cosying as much as Bajrang Dal, has an extended historical past of vehemently opposing Hindu nationalist organisations. The social gathering went as far as to pledge to outlaw the Bajrang Dal of their election manifesto through the latest Karnataka meeting election. It tried harm management with the help of its senior leaders, together with former Karnataka chief minister M. Veerappa Moily and incumbent state social gathering head and deputy chief minister D. Ok. Shivakumar, after the transfer resulted in a big backlash.

Bajrang Dal and the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) additionally delivered a defamation discover to Congress for associating Bajrang Dal with banned terrorist teams and sought Rs. 100 crores in damages.

However, days, after the Congress authorities was fashioned in Karnataka, Priyank Kharge, the son of the nationwide president of the Indian National Congress Mallikarjun Kharge and Minister for Social Welfare within the state cabinet, sparked controversy but once more by equating the RSS and Bajrang Dal with the PFI and threatened to ban the 2 Hindu outfits within the state.

Afterwards, chief minister Siddaramaiah rubbished the declare and clarified that any outfit disrupting social peace and concord will face harsh punishment and identified that the social gathering had not mentioned outlawing RSS.

Following that, Ok Venkatesh, the minister of animal husbandry and veterinary sciences, made a remark about ‘reviewing’ the anti-cow slaughter legislation introduced in by the earlier BJP authorities and legalising the identical. He talked about that the federal government will focus on it. “If a buffalo can be slaughtered, why not cows,” he argued.

The minister claimed that farmers wrestle with the upkeep of previous livestock and the disposal of the lifeless in an effort to additional assist his assertion. One of the cows that simply handed away at his property, he alleged, was tough to get rid of.

However, senior Congress chief and Minister for Transport Ramalinga Reddy issued a special assertion on the matter. He remarked, “The creator has given no rights to anyone to take life. I am against the killing of any animal. Every animal has a right to life,” whereas addressing reporters. He additionally proclaimed that he’ll share his opinion within the cabinet assembly as effectively.

Interestingly, on May 23, the newly elected Congress Government in Karnataka acquired an inventory of anti-Hindu calls for from Amnesty India, a doubtful outfit that shut down its workplace in India when a number of authorities began trying into it for doable Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) breaches.

The Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Act, 2020, was additionally the topic of a evaluate enchantment from the group which referred to as on the administration to allow cow slaughter.