Himesh Reshammiya visits Ajmer dargah in a burqa

Music composer, singer and actor Himmesh Reshammiya visited the Ajmer Dargah on Tuesday night to offer prayers days before the release of his film Aap Ka Suroor.Reshammiya was dressed in a burqa and made a back door entry to the holy tomb of Khawja Moinuddhin Chishti.

Reshammiya, along with four others, came here for ziyarat (pilgrimage) on Tuesday night and in order to avoid attention he wore a burqa . Soon after people came to know that he was there in the dargah wearing a burqa , there was resentment and some people objected to it.

However, Anjuman Committee, the official committee of the dargah khadims (servers) gave a clean chit to Reshammiya saying he (Reshammiya) had not committed any offence by offering ziyarat in a burqa .

” Burqa is a respectable dress and there was no need for the singer to express his regret and tender apology,” a Khadim said.

Spokesman of the Anjuman committee and former secretary Sarwar Chisti said, “since he is a popular artiste and wore a burqa to avoid the crowd, he has not committed any offence or sin.”

Reshammiya told the media that a dargah khadim Qutubuddhin Saki had advised him to wear a burqa .

“If I have committed any mistake, I apologise for that,” he told reporters after paying obeisance at the dargah .