After widespread protest from Sikh community, BJP expels its leader from party
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ November 5,2023
Today, Bhartiya Janta Party has expels its leader Sandeep Dayma from the party for using derogatory remarks against Gurudwaras in an election rally at Rajasthan
In a video that has gone viral on social media, Sandeep Dayma said during an election rally in the Tijara legislative assembly constituency in Rajasthan that if the BJP comes to power, mosques and gurudwaras would be “uprooted”.
The BJP leader was speaking at a rally held in the presence of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and a host of other party leaders. The rally was in favour of BJP’s Tijara candidate Baba Balaknath.
Following this, the BJP leaders from Punjab has lodged their protest with the party high command. Shiromani Akali Dal, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) too slammed Dayma for making remarks that first targeted Muslim and Sikh religious places and later Muslim ones alone.
The statement led to widespread anger among the Sikhs, forcing Sandeep Dayma to issue an apology. But the “apology” too was laced with religious hatred, but only against the Muslim community. Dayma said, “It was a slip of the tongue and what I wanted to say was that ‘mosques and madrasas’ would be uprooted. I wanted to say ‘masjid-madrasa’, but somehow said gurudwara. I apologise with folded hands.”
After widespread protest from Sikh community, BJP expels its leader from party. Sate party president Sunil Jakhar, said the Rajasthan leader’s outburst cannot be condoned.While senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh sought strict action against Dayma and the women’s wing chief of the Punjab BJP, Jai Inder Kaur, got a police complaint lodged in Chandigarh on Sunday against Dayma, a leader from Rajasthan.
