Radha Soami Satsang Beas bans VIP remedy, images with Dera head Gurinder Dhillon

The administration of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) has reportedly put a ban on images and videography throughout any VIP motion in its headquarters in Amritsar district. Though there was no official affirmation, but it’s learnt that this transfer has been taken preserving in view the spirituality and sanctity of the Dera.

Nonetheless, a ‘sewadar’, preferring anonymity, mentioned that this resolution was taken to unfold a message that every one are equal and no particular remedy could be given to anybody visiting the sect head Gurinder Singh Dhillon.

So far, it’s a verbal message: No VIP remedy to anybody visiting the Dera. The guests will likely be requested to not get footage clicked with the sect head or ahead these to their social media handlers. The sangat too has been appealed to chorus from clicking footage because it vitiates the non secular atmosphere of the revered place.

Secretary of RSSB Devender Kumar Sikri was non-reachable regardless of repeated makes an attempt on cellphone.

Sources mentioned that the Dera administration might need determined to place a curb on clicking and circulating the Dera head’s image, apparently, within the backdrop of his images with politicians being broadly circulated and misinterpreted on social media.

Lately, his presence was underlined on two events — his go to to Nabha jail to satisfy SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia, and second, his participation within the Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria’s foot march towards medication in Ferozepur. BJP working president Ashwani Sharma and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal too had attended the event.

These cases had stirred a political storm forward of the 2017 Assembly election. Speculations are additionally rife that the sect head Gurinder Dhillon may very well be BJP’s CM candidate within the ensuing ballot and one other one is that he may very well be the conduit to forge a re-alliance between SAD and BJP.

As precedent goes, high politicians of all events from the Centre and the state pay a go to to the Dera ‘to gain political mileage’, however recent restrictions on circulating their images with the Dera head on social media would hamper their function.

The Dera, as a coverage, prohibits using social media handlers like WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook or X for disseminating official info, each inside India and overseas.

There is already a restriction on carrying of cellphones contained in the Dera. The guests should deposit their cellphones on the entrance gate voluntarily. Still, these disciples who keep contained in the Dera carry their cellphones. They seize the photographs of the satsang, motivational talks and different actions of the Dera and in addition add these on YouTube or social media platforms.