Jalabhishek Yatra: Ayodhya seers stopped from entering Nuh, sits on 'hunger strike'
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Nuh, Aug 28: Several Hindu saints and seers were stopped and not allowed to join the Brijmandal Jalabhishek Yatra in Nuh. The Nuh Police and the administration blocked Seer Jagadguru Paramhans Acharya Maharaj from Ayodhya at the Sohna toll plaza and asked him not to be part of the scheduled Yatra.
Jagadguru Paramhans Acharya said he had come to Haryana from Ayodhya to perform ‘Jal Abhishek’ Pooja in Nuh. However, Section 144 was imposed in Nuh and police stopped him near the Sohna toll plaza. They are not even allowing him to return. This enraged the seer who announced a “hunger strike till death” in protest.
Speaking to news agency ANI, the seer said that he came to Nuh to pay homage to Bajrang Dal activists who died in last month’s communal clashes and brought the soil of Ram Janmabhoomi and water from the holy Sarayu River to perform Jal Abhishek there.
“I have come here from Ayodhya. The administration has stopped us here, they are not allowing us to move ahead nor they are allowing us to go back. So I am doing fast until death. If they (the administration) will shift me somewhere else, I will do fast until death there as well,” said Seer Jagadguru Paramhans Acharya Maharaj while talking to the media.
#WATCH | Nuh, Haryana: Seer Jagadguru Paramhans Acharya Maharaj from Ayodhya stopped at the Sohna toll plaza by the administration.
— ANI (@ANI) August 28, 2023
"I have come here from Ayodhya...The administration has stopped us here, they are not allowing us to move ahead nor they are allowing us to go… pic.twitter.com/m1Dv76xkna
"We have not denied permission for 'Jal Abhishek' but in view of the sensitivity of the prevailing situation and certain social media posts, we prevented some people coming in groups from outside Haryana," says ADGP (Law and Order) Mamta Singh on 'Jal Abhishek Yatra' in Nuh.
VIDEO | "We have not denied permission for 'Jal Abhishek' but in view of the sensitivity of the prevailing situation and certain social media posts, we prevented some people coming in groups from outside Haryana," says ADGP (Law and Order) Mamta Singh on 'Jal Abhishek Yatra' in… pic.twitter.com/ZGFc7Phlm4
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) August 28, 2023
Earlier in the day, the VHP had said its Yatra would be symbolic after authorities denied permission and imposed Section 144 in Nuh. Mobile internet services and bulk SMS were also suspended in the area in a bid to stop the spread of rumours and misinformation on social media.
Schools, colleges, and banks in Nuh also remained shut amid fears of any untoward incident if the Yatra is carried out. The situation in Nuh remained peaceful at the time of writing this report. In view of the Yatra, the Haryana district of Nuh has been turned into a fortress. Over 1,900 police personnel have been deployed.
The Yatra, which was supposed to happen on 31st July 2023, could not be completed after radical Islamists attacked the devotees in Nuh and at Nalhar Shiv Mandir. At least six people died, hundreds of devotees and police personnel were injured, several public and private vehicles were burnt to ashes, and the rioters destroyed a cyber crime police station. The Yatra had to be suspended and the VHP wanted to complete it on the last Monday of the holy Sawan month.
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