Kalicharan Maharaj arrested for making derogatory remarks against Mahatma Gandhi

Kalicharan Maharaj arrested from Madhya Pradesh

On Thursday, A religious leader, Kalicharan Maharaj, has been arrested from Madhya Pradesh's Khajuraho a few days after he made a derogatory remark against Mahatma Gandhi in Raipur.

On December 26 in a speech, Kalicharan Maharaj hailed Nathuram Godse for killing Mahatma Gandhi and said people should elect a Hindu leader as the head of the government to protect our religion.

“Kalicharan Maharaj was staying in a rented accommodation near Bageshwar Dham, 25km from Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh. Raipur Police arrested him at 4 am today. By the evening, the police team will reach Raipur with the accused,” Prashant Agarwal, Raipur’s superintendent of police.

A case was registered against him in Raipur's Tikrapara Police Station.

Delivering a speech at Dharma Sansad organised in Raipur, he used an abusive word against Father of the Nation.

The religious leader said, “Our prime duty is to save religion. We should elect a staunch Hindu leader in the government irrespective of any party a person belongs to.”

Kalicharan added, "The target of Islam is to capture nation through politics. In front of our eyes, they had been captured in 1947. They had earlier captured Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. They captured Bangladesh and Pakistan through their poisonous politics...I salute Nathuram Godse that he killed Mahatma Gandhi."

He received huge criticism from the Congress government in Chhattisgarh. Sushil Anand Shukla, the state Congress communication wing head said that the use of such words against Mahatma Gandhi was highly objectionable and negligible.

On December 26, Congress leader Pramod Dubey filed a complaint against Kalicharan Maharaj and the state police registered a FIR against the religious leader Kalicharan.

On December 19, he made derogatory comments about Christians and Muslims too at an event in Pune, prompting the police to register a case against him and five others.