Have the cops become priests to shower flower petals on the pilgrims? This is what most viewers felt from a VIRAL VIDEO.
Two days after a group of ‘Kanwariyas’ resorted to violence in West Delhi’s Moti Nagar area after one of them was hit by a car, a video of a top ranking Uttar Pradesh Police official showering rose petals on the Kanwariyas has now come to fore.
According to reports, Additional Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police (Meerut Zone) Prashant Kumar was caught on camera showering rose petals on the Kanwariyas from a helicopter on Wednesday.
The video of the UP top cop showering rose petals on the Kanwariyas is being widely shared on the social media.
See VIDEO uploaded by ANI:
#WATCH Additional Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police (Meerut Zone) Prashant Kumar showered rose petals on Kanwariyas from a helicopter yesterday pic.twitter.com/SvHH64DGxr
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) August 9, 2018
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Along with Prashant Kumar, Meerut Commissioner Anita Meshram and other senior officials too showered rose petals on Kanwariyas from the helicopter.
The video was first posted by Prashant Kumar on his Twitter but he removed the video after facing backlash.
“No religious angle should be given to this, flowers are used to welcome people. Administration respects all religions and actively takes part, even in Gurupurab, Eid, Bakrid or Jain festivals,” Prashant Kumar said defending his “flower welcome”.
While unimpressed social media users called the act “waste of public money”, the Uttar Pradesh police termed it as “soft” PR.
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had earlier conducted an aerial survey of the Kanwar Yatra route during the first half of the Shrawan month that began on July 28.
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