The resignation comes after his appearance at a religious event held in New Delhi recently.
The program date of Maharishi Valmiki ji is like this. Now more and more the animals living on the society are going to survive pic.twitter.com/buwnHYVgG8
— Rajendra Pal Gautam (@AdvRajendraPal) 9 October 2022
After submitting his resignation, Gautam said, “Such an issue has arisen out of repeated oaths by several crore people of the country. BJP has made it an issue, trying to insult me and my party.
#watch , Delhi: Such an issue has been made out of repeated oaths by several crore people of the country. BJP has made it an issue, trying to insult me and my party: AAP minister Rajendra Pal Gautam on his resignation as minister pic.twitter.com/6VJSSoQWfw
— ANI (@ANI) 9 October 2022
Gautam received criticism after his appearance at a religious event earlier this week where hundreds of people allegedly denounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism.
A video of the incident, which later went viral, showed her attending the event on October 5, when hundreds took a vow to embrace Buddhism and not worship Hindu deities as gods.
Following this, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched an attack against the AAP and demanded the dismissal of the minister.
