Jan 29, 2010
Press Conference was held on 23 January at Press Club of India, New Delhi to bring clarity to the matters raised by the media on Kinnars and Sant Asaram Bapu, a favorite target of malicious propaganda recently.
In the third week of January 2010, several media channels showed bytes of some issues raised by Eunuch’s (“Kinnar”) community on some comments by Sant Asaram Bapu. It became evident that some people had plans to create a rift between the sant and Kinnar community. It was alleged that Bapu had ridiculed Kinnar Kamala Bua , Mayor of Sagar, a town in Madhya Pradesh.
ISO decided to pursue the matter to get to the bottom because people of India deserve to know the truth. ISO’s independent investigation shockingly revealed a very different picture. It became clear that it was an unholy attempt to divide the society and to pitch one group against another. In commitment with its ideology ISO took the responsibility to bring out the truth. We conducted meetings with a number of insiders of both parties. The revelation was shocking as it turned out once again that an irresponsible section of Media twisted and manipulated the comments of Bapu.
We also laid our hands on a video in which Asaram Bapu was supposed to have ridiculed Kamla Bua. To our amusement, the video realty showed him praising Kamla Bua and her struggle on how she fought despite all odds and became the mayor of Sagar (Madhya Pradesh). It turns out that he had actually honored Kamla Bua in a recorded session in a congregation where millions of people across India were attending.
In a press conference organized by ISO at Press Club of India, new Delhi on 23rd Jan 2010, Kamala Bua arrived to bring clarify the matter. Surprisingly, she was all praise for Asaram Bapu, and claimed that she held the sant in high regard and with a lot of respect. She was apologetic to Asaram Bapu and offered apologies to Bapu on behalf of the community.
Eunuch leaders from Ahmedabad “Sanju De” and Delhi “Jatni” expressed anger against People trying to create a rift and said that respected the sant and greatly appreciated the social work being done by his institutions.
So here we go again, the issue turned out to be another dud from the media.

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