Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who’s serving a jail time period after being convicted in rape and homicide circumstances, on Wednesday mentioned that Honeypreet, Rahim’s adopted daughter, has now been named as “Ruhani didi”. “Our daughter is called Honeypreet. Since everyone calls her ‘didi’, it causes confusion as everyone is ‘didi’. So we have now named her ‘Ruhani Didi’ and modernized it to easy to pronounce, ‘Ruh Di’,” Dera chief tweeted.

Earlier on Sunday, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) President Harjinder Singh Dhami had termed the activities of convicted Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh as “anti-social” and demanded the Center and state authorities cease them instantly.

Dhami’s calls for got here as a response to the lately made announcement of the “opening of a Dera” in Punjab’s Sunam. Dhami had mentioned, “Ram Rahim’s character is anti-social and the charges leveled against him are heinous.”

Ram Rahim, the primary accused in sacrilege circumstances, has been serving a jail time period after being convicted in rape and homicide circumstances and was launched from Sunaria jail on 40-day parole on Saturday. The SGPC president had called Ram Rahim a “controversial person” and alleged that the announcement to open Dera in Punjab has harm the feelings of Sikhs.

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“The announcement by this controversial person to open a Dera in Punjab has hurt the Sikh sentiments and this may spoil the peaceful atmosphere of Punjab, SGPC president Dhami said adding that the Punjab government should play its role responsibly in this “very severe” matter and resolve that no branch of Dera Sirsa is established in Punjab.”

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He had additional mentioned that the Sikh mentality is being harm by repeatedly granting parole to Ram Rahim, who was imprisoned because of his unhealthy character and crimes and it’s a “conspiracy” to announce the opening of his Dera in Sunam.

“The Sikh community will never tolerate this act of his. The government should not allow the convict of heinous acts to play with the religious sentiments of the people,” he had added.While underscoring that any exercise of Ram Rahim won’t be accepted in Punjab, Dhami demanded the Center and the state authorities cease Ram Rahim’s on-line speeches whereas he’s out on parole and dealing with severe fees.

Ram Rahim had organized a digital ‘Satsang’ which was attended by many political leaders together with the Karnal Mayor and plenty of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, sparking a recent controversy. The Dera chief’s household had submitted an software to the jail authorities looking for month-long parole for him.

However, the opposition had demanded a justification from the Bharatiya Janata Party over its leaders’ participation within the Satsang and Karnal mayor Renu Bala Gupta, deputy mayor Naveen Kumar and senior deputy mayor Rajesh Aggi repeatedly tried to defend their participation within the occasion.

The senior Deputy Mayor had mentioned, “I was invited to the Satsang by the ‘sadh sangat’. Online Satsang was done from UP. Many people in my ward are associated with Baba. We attended the program with a social connection and it has nothing to do with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the upcoming bypoll.” Notably, the opposition additionally alleged that Ram Rahim was granted parole as a result of forthcoming bypolls in Adhampur which might be slated to be held on November 3. Besides, the state can be scheduled to carry panchayat polls quickly.

Ram Rahim was convicted by a particular CBI court docket in Panchkula in August 2017 for raping two ladies followers. While, on October 8, 2021, the court docket convicted Ram Rahim and 4 others in reference to former Dera supervisor Ranjit Singh’s homicide case. Ranjit Singh was murdered in 2002 on the premises of Dera Sacha Sauda.

CBI had registered the case on the orders handed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana within the yr 2003 and brought over the investigation of the case earlier registered at Police Station Sadar in Kurukshetra. It was alleged that Ranjit Singh was murdered on July 10, 2002, whereas he was working in his fields at village Khanpur Kolian of Kurukshetra district in Haryana.