Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha

So the Mr. Adani and Mr. Modi have operated symbiotically, almost in a sense, where his foreign policy and the business interests of Mr. Adani are working in tandem.

And I think there's a parallel with what BAPS has done religiously on the spiritual side of the religious side.

So

just to clarify, BAPS is essentially the acronym for a very, very large and very popular religious cult.

Practically, you can call it a sect.

but you can also call it a cult in India, which has recently been making the news abroad because they went to the Eiffel Tower and demanded that all the women's staff be removed from there because the head of the cult could not lay eyes on a woman or something like that.

So I was thinking what Mr. Adani does on the business side is what BAPS does on the religious side.

So they all act in tandem.

Diane Devuan of the CGT union... said anger grew among staff of the iconic 330-meter tower over the weekend after management told employees that female workers should not be in contact with the visiting delegation.

The group, known as BAPS, is a worldwide religious and civic organization within the Swamaranian sect, a branch of Hinduism.

It has been holding celebrations to mark the inauguration of a traditional Hindu stone temple in the French capital.

In a message on X, Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire said he would launch an investigation.

Now, I'm going to read this off my notes because it's not easy for me to pronounce.

The Bushesanwasi Akshar Prashottam Swarmarayan Santa, or BAPS, had a conference.

They took over the second floor of the Eiffel Tower on the 5th of September.

Now, they asked for no women to be present as part of their religious beliefs, except management of the Eiffel Tower have no record of that and BAPs are denying that request so for some reason women weren't there as a result obviously France strike it's not just that at the minute there is a whole heap of stuff taking place surrounding the Eiffel Tower that has been for a little while the management team are kind of falling apart.

Well, you say that, but, you know, like when you talk, so I would call your grandpa probably once a quarter every year because sometimes you just needed a good sermon.

And somehow, like you could have a 45-minute conversation with Dan's junior, I mean, Jan's senior, and it was better than a BAPS revival meeting.

So when you take that philosophy and you enter it into your life, You know, it's like you look at Michelle for real and you look at Dan Jr. They're truly like some of the happiest people I've ever been.

And some would say it's out of ignorance.

I'm not even going to try.

It comes with the acronym BAPS.

So I'm going to call it BAPS.

Well, there you go.

You've got a perfectly good acronym.

North Texas has seen new or growing sites in Frisco, Flower Mound, Plano, Prosper, and Irving.

The BAPS temple in Irving is adding a Frisco location...

Oh, they're franchising out now, how very Indian of them, to serve hundreds more families.

The Hanuman temple in Frisco, one of the largest in the state, isn't even big enough for the Hindu population in the area.

Here's what happened.

On Saturday, a delegation from BAPS, that's a Hindu religious organization.

I will try to say it, but please forgive me, and, um, I'm not trying to be a horrible person, but I don't speak any of these languages.

It's Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha.

Staff called it a straight-up violation of equality, and Monday they walked out.

The company that runs the tower, the SETE, S-E-T-E, actually confirmed the delegation had asked for a visit that limited, and I'm quoting here, "interaction with women." The president of the SETE organization, Ariel Weil, he's also the mayor of Paris City Center, one of the mayors of Paris City Center, said that's obviously not an acceptable practice and promised to investigate.

BAPS, the religious organization, responded on X.

They said that, to their knowledge, nobody was ever refused access to the tower, but they apologized to anyone who felt hurt or uncomfortable.

The visit coincided with a larger event.

BAPS had been marking the inauguration of a traditional Hindu stone temple in the Paris suburb of Bussy-Saint-Georges, an occasion attended by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to the Financial Express.

Anger among staff built over the weekend, and by Monday morning, employees had gathered to demand, as the one said to Reuters, that women never be treated that way at the company again.

The Eiffel Tower stayed closed all day.