BJP national secretary H Raja has been booked in half-a-dozen cases for his alleged derogatory remarks against employees of the state Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department. The department staff have been protesting against the BJP leader and staged a walkout from their workplaces on Tuesday, demanding action against Raja. They have, however, ensured that pujas in temples were not disrupted.
In a recent speech, Raja had alleged that the department’s officials were taking bribes and selling off temple lands to private parties. “It is equivalent to selling their women for money. They are not running these temples properly,” Raja said at Vedasandhur near Dindigul on Monday.