Police personnel deployed for the security of Hanumangarhi temple’s chief priest Raju Das were recently removed after an argument between him and district officials during a meeting here called by two Uttar Pradesh ministers.
Ayodhya District Magistrate Nitish Kumar, however, said the mahant’s security cover was removed on Friday following complaints that he was misusing it to threaten people, particularly traders.
The meeting was called by Uttar Pradesh ministers Jai Veer Singh and Surya Pratap Shahi on Thursday evening to review the BJP’s performance in the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat, which it lost in the polls, and Das and Ayodhya Mayor Girish Pati Tripathi were also present there. District officials, including the magistrate and Senior Superintendent of Police Raj Karan Nayyar, were called later to the meeting.
