Hindu Sena’s Vishnu Gupta receives death threats, files police report – India TV

Ajmer Sharif Dargah Row: Hindu Sena national president and petitioner Vishnu Gupta has received death threats days after he took to court that the Ajmer Sharif Dargah was built over a Shiva temple in Ajmer, Rajasthan. Gupta based his claim on Har Bilas Sarda’s Ajmer – Historical and Descriptive.

The caller threatened Gupta to kill him. “Your head will be cut off. You have made a big mistake by filing a case against Ajmer Darg,” the caller said.

Gupta lodged a complaint with the Barahamba police station in New Delhi. After filing the complaint, he said that he was not going to be afraid of such threats. “We work according to the law and it is our right to go to court. Through the court, we will return our temples,” he added.

Who is Vishnu Gupta?

Forty-year-old Vishnu Gupta, originally from Etah in UP, came to Delhi at a young age. Influenced by Hindu nationalism, he joined the youth wing of the Shiv Sena. In 2008, Gupta became a member of the Bajrang Dal. He founded Hindu Sena in 2011 along with some others. He now claims that the organization has thousands of members in all parts of India.

The temple’s statement in the petition sparked fierce debate

Earlier, the claim that the Ajmer Sharif Dargah was built over a Shiva temple had sparked heated debate among political and Muslim leaders in Rajasthan.

The petition was accepted by the Ajmer court, which issued notices to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the Ajmer Dargah Committee and the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs.

Rajasthan Education Minister Madan Dilawar on Friday said Mughal emperors like Babar and Aurangzeb destroyed most temples during their reigns and built mosques.

“If the court orders an excavation and if the remains are found after the excavation, then a decision will be taken (on the basis of the remains),” Dilawar told reporters in Kota.

Congress is targeting the government

Congress MP Rafiq Khan said it was a blow to the constitutional right to freedom of religion and equality. “The temple was built in the 12th century and is being challenged in 2024. This is an attempt to disrupt communal harmony and is against brotherhood between communities,” he said.

Accusing the Narendra Modi government of being divisive, Khan said, “Instead of hoping for a bright future for the youth and the coming generation, the government is pushing them back and misleading them because they have nothing to show as its achievements.” Syed Sarwar Chishti, secretary of Anjuman Syed Zadgan — a group of Khadims in Ajmer Dargahs — questioned the claim of petitioner Vishnu Gupta, who referred to Har Bilas Sarda’s book Ajmer Historical and Descriptive in his statement.

Chisti said in the petition that Gupta had mentioned that a Brahmin couple worshiped at the Mahadev temple where the dargah was built, but no other book on the history of the shrine made such claims.

Ajmer Dargah Diwan Zainul Abedin Khan, spiritual head of the shrine, citing some books, said the Sufi saint’s tomb was on ‘kachcha’ land and no ‘pukka’ structures were there for 150 years.

(Reporting by Rajkumar Verma, Ajmer)

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