Police Case Against Hindu Religious Leader For Allegedly Insulting Gandhi
NDTV
This follows comments from other Hindu religious leaders at two recent conclaves in Delhi and Uttarakhand's Haridwar, where calls for "ethnic cleansing" were made
A police case has been filed against a Hindu religious leader from Maharashtra after he allegedly insulted Mahatma Gandhi, and praised his assassin, Nathuram Godse, yesterday at a 'dharam sansad', or 'parliament of religions', in Chhattisgarh's Raipur.
Sant Kalicharan Maharaj - whose controversial speech also led to 'chief patron' Mahant Ramsunder Das disowning the event and walking off stage in anger - has been charged with promoting enmity between communities after ex-Mayor Pramod Dubey registered a complaint.
The President of the ruling Congress' state unit, Mohan Markam, has also called for a sedition case.
In his speech - clips of which have been widely circulated on social media, Kalicharan Maharaj declares that the aim of Islam is to capture the nation through politics. He also declared "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi destroyed the country... salutations to Nathuram Godse, who killed him".
