Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday was unhurt after his car collided with another vehicle in his motorcade on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura district, police said.
Mohan Bhagwat’s car collided with another vehicle in his motorcade on the Yamuna Expressway in Mathura district. (HT Photo)
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RSS spokesperson Manmohan Vaidya said Bhagwat was on his way to Vrindavan from New Delhi.
According to Baijnath Singh, the in charge of Sureer police station, the mishap occurred at 8.30am at 84 Milestone on the expressway.
Singh said the accident happened after the pilot car in Bhagwat’s cavalcade had a flat tyre bringing it to a sudden halt. Drivers of the other vehicles had to apply brake causing a pileup.
“The car following that of Mohan Bhagwat rammed into his vehicle and caused a damage to its rear bumper. There was no injury and the damaged car of the RSS chief was replaced,” Singh said.
He added after Bhagwat’s car was replaced, the cavalcade moved on for Vrindavan.
Bhagwat is scheduled to inaugurate the Mansi Dhyan Kendra at Nikunj Van Ashram of Kaushal Kishore Maharaj in Vrindavan. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and yoga guru Ramdev will also be present during the ceremony.
Hemendra Chaturvedi is a senior journalist based at Agra. He covers eight districts of Agra and Aligarh division namely Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Aligarh, Etah, Kasganj and Hathras. He had been with HT since 1992 and has completed three decades of association with HT and has worked for Hindustan Times only all through his career of about 35 years. Having Masters in Chemistry, Hemendra is also a law graduate with diploma in Personnel Management and has utilised broad based academic qualifications in his indepth, accurate and high impact stories from this part of western Uttar Pradesh while being based in the city of Taj Mahal. In such long span of career with Hindustan Times, Hemendra Chaturvedi has led his team of reporters which was instrumental in bringing out supplements including Region Scan, Agra Live, HT City time to time and proven his leadership qualities and has made presence of HT felt in the region covered by him. In the process of time, Hemendra has attained expertise in a variety of beats, being sole reporter for HT and has covered Aligarh Muslim University, Taj Mahal centric tourism, religiously sensitive city of Mathura and had been witness to Agra Summit having attendance of top leaders of India and Pakistan.
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