A day after the Election Commission issued a show-cause discover to Priyanka Gandhi over her “envelop” remarks associated to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s temple go to, the priest of the Devnarayan temple in Malasaeri Dungri has hit out on the senior Congress chief.
Speaking to India TV, Mahant Hemraj Poswal stated that it’s incorrect to do politics on the matter. “The Prime Minister did not give an envelope, he did donate the money, but how will we know how much was there because all the currency notes got mixed up,” he stated.
“I don’t understand how this word ‘envelop’ cropped up. Neither Priyanka Gandhi asked me nor did I tell her. Why this politics is being done in the name of religion?” Mahant Poswal additional requested.
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What was the matter?
It needs to be talked about right here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had arrived on January 28, 2023, to attend the celebrations of the 1111th ‘Avataran Mahotsav’ of Lord Shri Devnarayanji. There was a debate concerning this that PM Modi had put an envelope within the donation field stored within the temple. After the donation field was opened, three envelopes got here out of it. One envelope contained Rs 2100, the second Rs 101 and the third Rs 21. It was stated that the envelope that PM Modi put within the donation field was white in color, and Rs 21 got here out of it.
What Priyanka Gandhi had stated?
The controversy erupted after Priyanka Gandhi questioned PM Modi’s intention in the course of the latter’s go to to the Devnarayan Temple in Bhilwara earlier this 12 months. “I recently saw something on TV. I don’t know if it is true or not. PM Modi went to the Devnarayan temple and submitted an envelope in the donation box. People were wondering what it contained, but when it was opened Rs 21 came out of it,” Gandhi had stated throughout her ballot marketing campaign in Rajasthan.
However, the ballot panel requested her to answer the discover by October 30 night. The EC motion got here a day after the BJP filed a criticism against her. The BJP accused Priyanka Gandhi of “invoking the personal religious devotion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi” to make false claims throughout her ballot marketing campaign in Rajasthan and urged the Election Commission to take motion against her.
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