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RANCHI, INDIA, November 20, 2004: The BJP’s alliance with the AIADMK stands cut off following the way the Jayalalitha government in Tamil Nadu handled the arresting process of Sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, party’s general secretary Rajnath Singh said here today. “The whole process (of the Tamil Nadu government) with regard to the Sankaracharya issue is unbecoming. So there is no more relationship with the AIADMK,” Singh told a press conference in Ranchi on Saturday. Demanding immediate intervention of the Manmohan Singh government in the Sankaracharya issue, Singh sought the government to understand social sentiments attached with the Sankaracharya. “As there is nothing mentioned in the constitution for taking permission from an appropriate authority before arresting any religious leader, such process against any religious leader should be handled with care.”



Denouncing the seer’s police remand in connection with a murder case of a former mutt official, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said it would have been better had the state government opted for house arrest or kept the Sankaracharya in a guest house. “The accused who don’t cooperate in a case are normally sent to police remand, but it was not the case with the Sankaracharya,” he said, expressing fear of police overbearing against the religious leader.

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