The BAPS (Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha) has said an investigation into a controversial visit by its delegation to the Eiffel Tower in Paris found that the organisation did not ask for female employees to be hidden, removed or excluded from the visitor route.
The clarification comes after Eiffel Tower employees went on strike last month following allegations that female staff members were moved away during a September 5 visit by around 100 people associated with BAPS. The protest resulted in the temporary closure of the iconic Paris landmark.
In a statement issued on Thursday, BAPS Paris reiterated that it had never requested that women working at the Eiffel Tower be excluded from the delegation’s route.
“The investigation establishes this fact that BAPS made no such request for women to be excluded along the visitor route,” the organisation said.