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Namdeo Das Tyagi had reportedly encroached upon 46 acre allotted to the Jamburdi Hapsi panchayat in 2000 for the event of a cow shelter in Indore district
The BJP authorities in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday tore down an ashram of ‘Computer Baba’ in Indore district claiming it was constructed illegally, days after he campaigned for the Congress in the byelection.
The police took him and 6 others into preventive custody.
Namdeo Das Tyagi (‘Computer Baba’) had reportedly encroached upon 46 acre allotted to the Jamburdi Hapsi panchayat in 2000 for the event of a cow shelter. Illegal constructions have been constructed on two acres, valued at ₹80 crore, stated the Indore district administration.
“Despite receiving notice from our side, they didn’t remove the encroachment which led to the action,” stated Hatod Sub-Divisional Magistrate Shashwat Sharma. The district administration stated a cow shelter could be constructed and a spiritual website could be developed there.
Political vengeance: Digvijaya
Meanwhile, Rajya Sabha member Digvijaya Singh alleged the ashram and a temple have been being razed with none discover with a “feeling of revenge”. “This is the height of political vengeance. I condemn this,” he wrote in Hindi on Twitter. The baba had canvassed for him throughout the 2019 Lok Sabha election, which Mr. Singh misplaced to BJP’s Pragya Thakur.
Ahead of the byelection to 28 seats on November 3, the baba undertook the ‘Save Democracy’ yatra calling upon voters to resolve towards the BJP’s 25 candidates who had converted from the Congress since March. Defections of 19 of them en masse had introduced down the 15-month Congress authorities.
In 2018, the baba was accorded the standing of the Minister of State by the BJP authorities then to supervise planting and cleanliness alongside the Narmada river. When the Congress got here to energy, it gave the same accountability to him.
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