While the Telangana CM Revanth Reddy treated Hindu deities as regional, racial, and class property, Hindu scriptures and traditions do not assign Lord Shiva to the poor and Lord Ram to the rich, or to Shiva to the South and Ram to the North.
Hindu organizations told the police that the accused had deliberately insulted the Hindu God and was last located near the Polyground. The complainant said that the accused shot the video on the same location and uploaded it from his ID named 'Sukkha Maharaj'.
A video of Jandel using abusive words for Lord Shiva had gone viral on the internet, following which Hindu advocacy groups, including VHP, protested against the leader.
The explosion happened at a bus stand near a Shiv Mandir in the Surankote area of Poonch district in Jammu and Kashmir. Though there were no casualties, the impact was so severe that it created a crater on the ground and left holes and marks on the temple walls.
The design of the stadium in Varanasi draws inspiration from Lord Shiva. Evidently, the roof covers in the newly constructed stadium will be crescent-shaped, its floodlights will resemble the shape of a trident, it will have ghat steps-based seating, and Bilvipatra-shaped metallic sheets on the facade. Moreover, one of the structures will be shaped like a 'damru'.
During investigation, the police found a large cache of stones piled on the terrace of the madarsa from where stones were pelted at a procession of Hindus in Thasra.
On September 15, on the last day of the auspicious month of Shravan, Islamists attacked a Lord Shiva procession in the Thasra area in the Kheda district in Gujarat