The Uttarakhand government has informed the Uttarakhand High Court that the Hindu Mahapanchayat at Purola, over which concerns over possible hate speech were raised, is being called off.
Sources in the Uttarkashi superintendent of police’s office told this newspaper that DM Abhishek Ruhela and SP Arpan Yaduvanshi had met the mahapanchayat organisers with the request on Monday evening but were turned down
The petition was filed by Delhi University professor Apoorvanand Jha and poet Ashok Vajpeyi on June 13. The petition demanded an immediate ban on proposed mahapanchayat by right-wing groups in Uttarkashi., India News, Times Now