Lucknow, Feb. 3 (TNS): In a video being widely shared, a senior police officer is seen pledging to build the Ram temple in Ayodhya, hand raised in ceremony, along with several other people in a room.
“We, Ram bhakts, in this programme, pledge that a grand Ram temple will be built soonest. Jai Sri Ram,” say the men present at the function, reportedly held at Lucknow University. Among them is Surya Kumar Shukla, a senior IPS or Indian Police Service Officer of the 1982 batch of the UP cadre at present posted as the state’s director general of Home Guards. Mr Shukla, wearing a grey jacket, is seen in the video standing to the left of the man who administered the pledge.
“Mr Shukla is a public servant, and he is not supposed to take such a pledge at a public function,” said Samajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary.
The Yogi Adityanath government is learnt to have sought an explanation and the officer went public with his side of the story.
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But the IPS Association, the key body of officers from the premier police service, weren’t entirely convinced. In an unusual tweet, the association put out a video of the pledge and asserted that this wasn’t in line with the ethos that the police service stands for.
