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Delhi minister Rajendra Pal Gautam on Sunday resigned from his post, amid a controversy over his presence at a religious conversion event where Hindu deities were allegedly denounced.
The Bhartiya Janata Party had attacked him and the Aam Aadmi Party after a video went viral showing him attending the event on October 5 where hundreds took a pledge to convert to Buddhism and not consider Hindu deities as gods.
He had accused the BJP of spreading ‘rumours’ against him and had apologised to ;anyone who has been hurt due to such propaganda’.
In a letter shared on Twitter, he said that he has resigned.
‘I do not want my leader Shri Arvind Kejriwal or the party to be in any trouble because of me. I am a true solider of the party and I will follow the ideals shown by Baba Saheb Ambedkar and Gautam Buddh throughout my entire life, he said.
