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First revealed on: Sep 2, 2026 at 05:50 AM IST
The politics over the ‘purification’ of a Haldwani floor following a rally addressed there by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge intensified on Tuesday when the state BJP carried out one more ritual. This time, the “mind cleaning” of Rahul Gandhi and his fellow partymen. The “buddhi shuddhi yagna” for the Chief of Opposition was held at a temple in Dehradun.
“Now we have given complaints to the police in all 19 organisational districts. Rahul Gandhi and Kharge ji have made Haldwani shuddhikaran programme a serious situation regardless of understanding {that a} Valmiki group particular person had participated in that programme. They’re spreading lies,” mentioned BJP Scheduled Caste (SC) wing’s state president Balbir Ghuniyal. The yagna on Tuesday was carried out within the hope that Gandhi and different Congress leaders “attain knowledge and cease spreading lies”, he mentioned.
An FIR was lodged against Gandhi in Haldwani following a grievance by Amit Kumar, a neighborhood who claimed to belong to the Valmiki group. In his grievance, Kumar mentioned the “cleanliness drive and spiritual ritual” by him and different SC group members on the Ram Lila floor, Haldwani, on August 11 had no reference to any particular person or caste.
“Regardless of that, Rahul Gandhi, in a press convention on August 29, with none verification, referred to as it an act associated to ‘chhuachhut (untouchability)’ and against the law towards Scheduled Castes, and demanded an FIR towards those that participated in that ritual,” Kumar’s grievance learn.
Gandhi had, in his New Delhi press convention, referred to as the “purification” a “crime” that illustrated the “untouchability” Dalits face throughout the nation and one which uncovered the “BJP-RSS mindset”.
Complaints pour in
The BJP on Monday night submitted a number of police complaints towards Gandhi. In a single such letter submitted on the Roorkee police station, the complainant, BJP SC wing district president Neetu Singh Mandawar, alleged that Gandhi, in his public statements, had linked Haldwani’s “shuddhikaran (purification) programme with the caste of Kharge and the Dalit group.
“The individuals related to the programme have denied any caste bias, and there may be info that SC group individuals, too, participated in it. Therefore, it is a severe matter to analyze on what foundation Rahul Gandhi publicly introduced the incident as caste-based discrimination and an insult to Dalit group,” her grievance learn.
The BJP has additionally appealed for the examination of Gandhi’s public statements, movies, press convention and social media content material, and to report the statements of all these current and lodge an FIR if parts of any cognisable offence are discovered. “It isn’t a requirement for motion due to political variations. The target is honest inquiry of the information to make sure that group names, particularly Scheduled Castes, should not used for baseless political narrative and creating social enmity,” the BJP leaders mentioned in all of the complaints.
With the complaints, the get together has additionally submitted the video recordings of press conferences and images. Nevertheless, a senior official in Uttarakhand police headquarters mentioned that no recent FIR was lodged towards Gandhi on BJP’s complaints to this point.
In response, Uttarakhand Congress basic secretary Amarjeet Singh mentioned that the get together on September 7 will organise a march to the chief minister’s residence with a requirement looking for FIR registration towards those that carried out a purification ritual at Haldwani floor and to protest the FIR towards Gandhi.
For these similar calls for, senior Congress chief and former CM Harish Rawat on Tuesday noticed a vow of silence at a Ravidas temple in New Delhi. Congress leaders in Haldwani additionally protested outdoors the native police station.
