AAP’s Pathak offers prayers at makeshift Walled City temple

New Delhi: A day after a makeshift structure was erected in the Chandni Chowk area to house a temple, which was removed earlier in compliance with the order of Delhi High Court, AAP functionary and MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak visited the site and prayed for world peace.
Pathak claimed that “the north corporation had demolished the temple but the people re-built it with their faith.” “AAP is standing with the devotees, and we have come here to pray before Lord Hanuman so that he removes all the crisis of the country and the world, and gives sanity to all.In the times of corona, people have lost their jobs and suffered huge losses in terms of health and wealth. We pray that the problems are eliminated from everyone’s lives,” said Pathak.
Both AAP and BJP have been blaming each other for removal of the temple, which was declared an encroachment in 2015.
State BJP president Adesh Gupta, vice-president Rajan Tiwari and north corporation mayor Jai Prakash had offered puja at the site on Friday. Adesh Gupta alleged the Kejriwal government got the temple demolished and the CM should personally go there for forgiveness. “It is regrettable that along with the temple, a 100-year-old peepal tree was also cut by the government.”