Voting continues on Saturday for Haryana Assembly elections. Meanwhile, the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters has appealed to its followers to vote in favor of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The announcement came a day after Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim came out of Rohtak’s Sunaria jail on 20-day parole. According to the report of Economic Times, this message was given to the followers during the satsang organized at Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa late on Thursday night. Usually, instructions to the followers come openly from the Satsang platform a few days before the assembly elections. However, this time this instruction has been given in a somewhat silent manner.
According to sources, this time no announcement was made from the satsang platform. The camp officials went to the open courtyard and asked the people attending the meeting to vote for the BJP. “We have also asked followers to be active near the booth,” an official told ET. Every follower should take along 5 more voters living in his colony to vote. The atmosphere of satsang at Sirsa headquarters has changed after Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim was sentenced to 20 years in jail. The Active Political Affairs Committee has been disbanded. Now his officials and followers organize satsang.
Kept openly supporting BJP
According to the report, after release, Gurmeet Ram Rahim is staying in his Baghpat Ashram. He conveyed the message of support to BJP through an official in Sirsa. It is known that Dera’s support to BJP is not a new thing. Dera Sacha Sauda has a large following among Dalits in Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. He has been openly supporting BJP. Rape case convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh came out of Haryana’s Rohtak jail on Wednesday after getting 20 days parole. He will stay at Dera Ashram in Barnawa, Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh during his temporary release. During this period, he is barred from taking part in election related activities, giving speeches and staying in the state.
Guilty of raping 2 female students
Gurmeet Singh is serving a 20-year jail sentence since 2017 for raping two of his female students. The Dera chief and three others were also convicted in 2019 in the murder of a journalist more than 16 years ago. He had requested for 20 days parole before the Haryana Assembly elections to be held on October 5. As per the conditions of parole, the Dera chief will not take part in any election related activities nor make any public speech. During this period he will remain out of Haryana. The Dera chief had said that if parole is granted, he would like to live in Baghpat. The jail department had recently sent the parole petition of the Dera chief to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Haryana in view of the model code of conduct implemented in view of the assembly elections.
