Aggrieved nation pays tributes to Palghar Saints

New Delhi, Apr 29: Enraged and aggrieved by the heinous lynching by two Panch Dashnami Juna Akhara Sadhus – Mahant Kalpavruksha Giri and Mahant Sushil Giri Maharaj and their driver Nilesh Telghare in Maharashtra’s Palghar district on April 16 night, the entire nation paid tributes to them and prayed for their eternal peace by lighting lamps at their respective houses.

Besides praying for the eternal peace for those righteous souls, the people also reiterated their demand for the early and harshest punishment to those who committed this gruesome murder.

Offering tributes to them by lighting a lamp at the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) headquarters in South Delhi, VHP's Central Secretary-General Milind Parande said that it is very unfortunate that many killers of the venerable saints in this country of spiritual tradition are roaming in the open even on the 13th day of the killing.

The whole of India, by lighting a lamp in the name of the saints has given the message of immense unity of Hindu society and it should not be taken lightly. Our true tribute to them will be the immediate arrest and harsh punishment of the actual killers and their masterminds. Also, Hindu society always stands by the principle that no innocent person should be punished.

Parande further said that the anti-Hindu wicked and malevolent activities by the communist political and non-political organizations along with the Christian missionaries have been inciting the innocent tribal brethren to violence in many places of the country including Palghar district. The heinous killings of Pujya Shri Shantikali Ji Maharaj in Tripura and Pujya Swami Laxmananand Ji Maharaj in Odisha were the results of such violent propensities on the parts of the said outlandish forces, he said.

 

On the call of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha and All India Sant Samiti, numerous Akharas, monasteries, temples, Ashrams, Gurudwaras and Jain Sthanaks, houses and business centers, etc., across India offered lamp-tributes to the immortal martyrs of Palghar, while fully observing the COVID-19 lockdown protocol.

Additionally, memoranda addressed to the President of Bharat was also submitted to the Governors/LGs at several capitals of States/UTs and to DMs at district headquarters. The memorandum demanded a high-level investigation into the gruesome Palghar incident, arrest of the killers and their masterminds, and exemplary punishment to them at the earliest.