While condemning what happened at landhaura, Swami Achyutanand Teerth of Bhuma Niketan said that the community of the saints, in general, has done a great disservice to the religion and the country by keeping a stony silence over the violence that has been unleashed on June 1.
“Flattering the high and mighty for small gains cannot be role the people expect the sant community to play. This is an affront against the basic tenets of Hindu religion too which does not encourage the saints to put self-aggrandizement over dharma,” he said while addressing a press conference in Haridwar on Friday. He also trained his gun on the Congress, saying that the ruling party of the State is busy pandering to minority appeasement to consolidate its vote bank behind it. “This is what is damaging the foundation of the country from within. This is dangerous,” he said.
Achyutanand further said, “The youths are giving lessons on the art of terrorism in the Madrassas. They need to be closed down immediately to stop them from turning breeding grounds of the terrorists.”
The seer said that the way a Shiva temple was destroyed at landhaura is condemnable. On 19 June, they would congregate at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to demand ‘Saman Nagrik Samhita (Uniform Civil Code), he added.