NO POLITICS BEHIND BEAS DERA VISIT, SAYS JAKHAR
Friday, 05/04/2019
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CHANDIGARH : A day after calling on the head of the Radha Soami dera Beas ahead of elections, Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar on Thursday said it was a “courtesy” meeting.
Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh, along with Jakhar and party’s Punjab affairs in-charge Asha Kumari, met dera head Gurinder Singh Dhillon on Wednesday.
They had lunch with the Dera chief and stayed there for some time. “It was a courtesy meeting,” Jakhar told reporters when he was asked about the visit.
The dera, located about 40km from Amritsar, has a large number of followers, cutting cross religion and caste.
In December 2016, the then Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had also met the Radha Soami dera chief and had stayed there overnight.
