

Meanwhile, the All India Hindu Mahasabha (AIHM) has also extended its support to Raja Uday Pratap Singh. Later, though he ate his meal and took his medicine, he refused to stop protesting, which continued on Thursday with the assistance of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, Adhivakta Sangh, and several other shopkeepers.

He however refused to move from his position. We’ll protest until all our demands are met”, he said. When they are asked to take action against Hindus, they (Police) are quick. “The administration and the police are taking no action against them (Islamists). He stated that the religious sentiments of Hindus were being hurt and that rituals from other religions were forcefully being imposed upon Hindus. Singh, whose father Raja Bajrang Bahadur Singh was the founder and vice-chancellor of Pant Nagar Agriculture University and later the second governor of Himachal Pradesh state, reiterated his demand for the removal of the Muharram gate. The team reported that Uday Pratap Singh’s blood pressure readings were noted lower than normal. Immediately, a team from Kunda’s community health facility was dispatched for a medical check on Wednesday. This is a day after his condition deteriorated due to no food and medicines. “I will continue with the sit-in until the temporary gate is removed,” Uday Pratap Singh said on August 4.

We suggest that all Hindus complain to the chief minister that the gate should be removed immediately”, Uday Pratap Singh was quoted in a report.Īccording to the reports, demands put forth by the UP MLA’s father include the removal of the illegal Muharram gate and other establishments assembled by the Islamists in the region. They are forcing the Hindus to walk under it. “In Shekhpur village located at Kunda, Pratapgarh, Muslims have built a gate of the mosque across the road, on which many things are written in their language. Uday Pratap Singh, father of politician Raja Bhaiya, sitting on dharna for removal of a gate which resembles a mosque structure in Shekhpura village in UP’s Pratapgarh district. On August 4, Raja Uday Pratap Singh, the previous Raja of Bhadri estate and father of former Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh, also known as Raja Bhaiya, began a protest against the establishment of a temporary Muharram gate in the Shekhpur Ashik region of Pratapgarh’s Kunda development block.
