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Nashik, Jan 22
The goons of the Bharatiya Janata Party have attacked Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan Yatra in Assam. The attack is condemnable and creates a dictatorship, said Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and leader of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) Sanjay Raut in a press conference on Monday. Raut also said that the party is going to start the work of crushing this type of dictatorship from the Nashik convention onwards.
He further said that the ceremony at Ayodhya is important. The construction of the Ram temple is a thing of pride, but it is not right for BJP to give political form to religious fervour. Raut also reminded that four Shankaracharyas of the country have boycotted the event saying that the ceremony in Ayodhya is being done in haste, but his party does not want to play politics in the celebration. Lord Shri Ram belongs to the entire world and not only to BJP, said Raut.
He informed that under the theme 'Ram Janmabhoomit Shiv Senecha Wagh’ (Tiger of Shiv Sena in Ram Janmabhoomi), the party is organising an exhibition of pictures at the Shiv Sena convention venue in Nashik, after which these exhibitions will be held at various places in the state, including Nagpur. ‘Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis asks about Shiv Sena's participation in the Ayodhya agitation. He should come to inaugurate the exhibition in Nagpur. we will present evidence to him through pictures’ said Raut.
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