Hindu organisations protested over the Islamic plan to destroy an ancient Temple in Bareilly.

Karni Sena and Azad Hindu Sena vehemently protested and expressed their anger on the information of vandalizing the ancient temple in the way of Bareilly’s Ala Hazrat Dargah lane. 

Upendra Bharti | HENB | Bareilly | July 7, 2023::  The ancient Lakshmi Narayan temple located in Ala Hazrat Dargah Wali Gali under Bareilly Mohalla Saudagran Police Station Kotwali Biharipur Chowki area is about 450 years old, which was in a state of closure due to a dispute out of the purchase of adjacent lands by the Muslim community. Bareilly is a Muslim-dominated area in Uttar Pradesh.

But, when the Hindu people of the area heard that there was an attempt to destroy the temple from inside, they reached the spot and started protesting.  As soon as the police received the information, Circle Police Inspector Shweta Singh, Police Station Head  Himanshu Nigam, the Biharipur outpost  In-charge Jitendra Kumar reached there. Then the residents of the area told that the process of demolition of this land and temple was going on even after the case was pending in the court, while the main gate of the temple was closed, the Muslim labours were working inside the temple entering from the back gate.

People allege that one Sandeep Sharma a local activist of Samajwadi Party, who is the caretaker of this land and temple, sold it to a person named Jamal Khan, while Sandeep is not the heir of this property. This morning, when the workers started destruction inside the temple, people gathered there to protest. When the leaders and workers of Karni Sena- Uttar Pradesh and Azad Hindu Sena came to know about this, they also reached the spot and started the protest over the matter.

District President of Karni Sena, Thakur Rahul Singh directly accused the Islamist forces which are directly engaged to occupy the Hindu lands under ‘land jihad’ at any cost. National President of Azad Hindu Sena, Amit Rathore Azad, warned that the temples are symbols of our ancient tradition, and an injury to it is an injury to the tradition, which will not be tolerated at all. Anybody against Hinduism will be taught in that language that he can understand well.

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__Inputs from Agencies.