New Delhi: Convicted Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh who is out on a 40-day-parole, for the fourth time in the past 14 months addressed a religious congregation in Punjab’s Salabatpura virtually on Sunday.
The Dera’s Punjab headquarter is at Salabatpur and is the second largest after Sirsa in Haryana. Singh addressed his followers virtually from the Dera’s ashram at Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh.
Dera officials claimed that Ram Rahim had decided to hold an online Satsang, as his followers had complained that they had been stopped from attending a similar function in Sirsa on January 25.
The Sirsa administration had claimed that some supporters weren’t allowed owing to the lack of space at the venue. However, on Sunday Singh addressed his followers virtually, amid tight security at the Salabatpura Dera. The security deployment was led by Bathinda SSP J Elanchezhian. The Dera committee members said the virtual conference was held to celebrate their second chief Shah Satnam Singh’s birth anniversary month, News18 reported.
