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February 1, 1999
Title: Bajrang Dal to sue Sonia
Author: Express News Service
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: February 1, 1999
The Bajrang Dal plans to file a case against All-India Congress
Committee (AICC) president Sonia Gandhi under Section 295 IPC
for allegedly not following the rules of the Tirumala Tirupathi
Devasthanam (TTD) during her darshan at Tirupati on January 28,
according to Dal's East Andhra convener Syam Prasad Mukherjee.
Addressing a press conference here, Mukherjee said TTD rules
state that any non-Hindu visiting the Lord Venkateswara temple
should sign a declaration before the darshan.
Union Minister Sikander Bhakt and former Union railway minister
Jaffer Shariff had signed the declaration when they visited the
temple, he said.
Mukherjee alleged that despite requests by TTD executive officer
and the archakas, Sonia did not sign the declaration.
This, he felt, had violated the age-old temple custom.
"It is nothing short of a cognizable offence," the Bajrang Dal
leader pointed out.
The Bajrang Dal will also file cases against Andhra Pradesh
Congress Committee (APCC) president Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and
other party leaders who claimed that Sonia was a Hindu and
prevented her from signing the declaration and against the TTD
executive officer for allowing Sonia to visit the temple.
Mukherjee said that the East Andhra unit of Bajrang Dal had
decided to file the case with the consent of state president of
the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
But before this, a complaint will be lodged at the concerned
Tirumala police station in the same case within fifteen days, he
said.
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