"Maharaj" behind the bars: Kalicharan apprehended

[Sukla Sen]

The offender is, however, not the central issue here.

There're too many.

The issue is how the concerned state government acts.

Now, it'll be a sort of benchmark to evaluate others - including the Uttarakhand Government, from under whose nose the calls for genocide were issued.

<<Kalicharan Maharaj, whose controversial speech at a "dharma sansad" or religious meeting in Chhattisgarh's Raipur led to chief patron Mahant Ramsunder Das disowning the event and walking off stage in anger, was also charged with promoting enmity between communities after former mayor Pramod Dubey filed a police case.

Raipur senior police officer Prashant Agarwal has confirmed that Kalicharan has been arrested.

Kalicharan booked a guest house in Khajuraho but did not stay there, police sources said, adding he instead went to a rented house some 25 km from Khajuraho to dodge the police, who had been looking for him since the day a case was filed against him.>>

(Excerpted from: <https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/raipur-hindu-religious-leader-kalicharan-maharaj-arrested-for-remarks-against-mahatma-gandhi-2679021/amp/1>.)

Here's the video clip capturing Ram Sundar Das walking angrily out in protest: <https://t.co/912wP2cN96>.

For the shrieks in Haridwar (Dec. 17 - 19): <https://twitter.com/kaushikrj6/status/1473580140114239488?t=Mf6xnyBlzTJR02BFo48v3g&s=19>.

The arrest: <https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1476411035548479488?t=_RtDazY7HKJXqIHiDOR9_w&s=19>.

Two video reports on the Raipur event:

I/II. <https://youtu.be/UBhRT8jmfI0>.

II. <https://youtu.be/CS0OSrmAPSc>.

Kalicharan called Gandhi - "Haar...i", praised Godse for killing him and trained his guns on the adversarial "others" - Muslims.

While Kalicharan, together with his likes, quite plausibly, got fired up by preceding Haridwar, it's Haridwar that made them come under the flashlight of public scrutiny and bereft of active patronage from the concerned state administration is now getting the short end of the stick.