After SC refuses to urgently hear petition to open temple in Jharkhand, BJP MLA protests with damru

BJP MLA Narayan Das arrived at the Jharkhand Assembly premises with a damru on Tuesday to demand that the Baba Baidyanath temple be opened. Earlier on Tuesday, the Supreme Court had rejected a request for an urgent hearing in the matter.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected the request for an urgent hearing of a petition to open Baba Baidyanath temple in Jharkhand for the public. #WATCH | Jharkhand: Narayan Das, BJP MLA from Deoghar, reaches State Assembly premises with a 'damru', demanding reopening of Baba Baidyanath dham in his constituency. pic.twitter.com/VuQnNpL66K A few hours later, BJP MLA Narayan Das arrived at the Jharkhand Assembly premises with a garland of leaves around his shoulder and a damru in his hands to demand that the temple be opened. He can be seen chanting 'Har Har Mahadev' with the group of people that accompanied him in a video posted by ANI on Twitter.