Pune: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker built a temple of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Pune. The temple, however, was closed after heavy criticism from the Congress and other opposition leaders, here on Thursday.
Mayur Munde, a real estate agent and BJP worker inaugurated the temple on Independence Day, which had a statue of the Prime Minister and featured the BJP;s lotus symbol.
He claimed that he spent around Rs 1.6 lakh on the temple which also featured hoarding of a poem praising Modi.
Speaking to local media, he said that he was inspired by Modi’s work and he should have his own shrine as he built the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
However, he faced fierce opprobrium from opposition party leaders and Congress spokesperson Anant Gadgil said that Munde’s temple the “height on fanaticism”.
Nationalist Congress Party leader Prashant Jagtap said that workers should admire his leaders but this type of initiatives of building temples of a living individual leader will give a wrong message to society.
Meanwhile, people on social media also mocked the efforts of Munde and many called him ‘andh-Modi Bhagat’ (blind follower of Modi).