PM Modi sends sacred chadar for Ajmer Sharif Dargah amid Shiva temple claim petition row
Live MintPrime Minister Narendra Modi handed over a ceremonial 'chadar' to Union Minister for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Thursday, January 2. This sacred 'chadar' will be offered at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah on the occasion of the Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti – the 13th-century Sufi saint. “PM Narendra Modi ji presented the Chadar that would be offered on his behalf at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah on the Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti,” Rijiju said in a post on X sharing the picture of the chadar. The minister was accompanied by Jamal Siddiqui, the national president of BJP minority morcha, during the handing over of the ‘chadar’ Since assuming office as Prime Minister, Modi has offered a 'chadar' to Ajmer Sharif Dargah ten times. Lord Shiva's temple claims Modi's gesture comes over a month after a Rajasthan court accepted a petition submitted by the Hindu Sena, claiming that the revered Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Rajasthan is Lord Shiva's temple.