‘I will give up’: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey after FIR filed over ‘forcible’ temple entry; ‘booked for performing puja’ | India News

Nishikant Dubey (left) and Manoj Tiwari

NEW DELHI: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday slammed the Jharkhand Police after he and 5 others, together with Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari, have been booked for allegedly “forcibly” getting into the sanctum sanctorum of the Baba Baidyanath temple in Deoghar, thereby “hurting religious sentiments.”Also Read: Deoghar’s Shravani mela deserves nationwide standing, says BJP MP Nishikant Dubey “I have been booked for performing ‘puja.’ So far, 51 cases have been registered against me. Tomorrow, I will go straight from Deoghar airport to the police station to get arrested,” the Lok Sabha member from Godda wrote on X.

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The FIR, lodged as per a grievance by temple priest Kartik Nath Thakur, is underneath varied sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for “forcible entry” despite a restriction on VVIP entries during the holy month of “Shravan” in view of a large number of devotees.“An FIR has been lodged in opposition to Nishikant Dubey, Manoj Tiwari, Kanshikanat Dubey, Sheshadri Dubey and others for getting into the internal sanctorum of the temple, hurting spiritual custom and sentiments and inflicting obstacles in authorities work by getting into right into a scuffle with police individuals deployed for safety causes,” an officer informed information company PTI.Also Read: SC upholds HC’s order to junk FIR in opposition to BJP MPs Dubey, Tiwari in Deoghar airport caseAccording to the complaint, the group’s actions created panic among devotees, and triggered a stampede-like situation.About 55 lakh “kanwariyas” (devotees of Lord Shiva) have offered holy water at the Baba Baidyanath temple during the ongoing month-long “Shravan Mela” to this point.