Overview
- Video shows a Chhattisgarh police officer saluting Minister Guru Khushwant Saheb, removing his cap and shoes, and touching Dhirendra Shastri’s feet after they alighted a state aircraft in Raipur.
- Shastri flew into Raipur on a government plane that first went to Satna and then brought him for a religious discourse scheduled in Bhilai.
- Chhattisgarh Congress called the flight arrangement a misuse of public funds and demanded an official explanation on the authority under which the aircraft was provided.
- The BJP defended the officer’s gesture as an act of personal faith and rejected the opposition’s objections, escalating partisan exchanges over the episode.
- Raipur SSP Lal Umed Singh said the officer was not in complete uniform and that no action has been taken, while Shastri continued his Bhilai programme and then traveled to Mumbai.