Functionaries of several Buddhist organisations have written to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking legal action against former Delhi government minister Rajindra Pal Gautam as they accused him of trying to divide the nation.Gautam had to resign from the Kejriwal government after a video emerged of a religious conversion event in which a large number of people, including him, were heard taking the pledge of not considering Hindu deities as gods and not worshipping them.While the BJP accused him and the Aam Aadmi Party of being anti-Hindu, Gautam has argued that the controversial vow was part of the 22 pledges B R Ambedkar had administered to Dalits who had converted to Buddhism along with him in 1956.
