Dehradun, July 15 -- Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday said that the guilty in the Badrinath Temple theft will face the strictest action, adding that the government would not allow the incident to be politicised.

"The Badrinath Temple theft case is an extremely serious matter. The government will not allow any kind of politics over it, and the strictest action will be taken against those responsible," he said.

Dhami spoke at the 'Jan-Jan ki Sarkar, Jan-Jan ke Dwar' programme in Gopeshwar, Chamoli, aimed at bridging the gap between the administration and the public by taking government services directly to people's doorsteps.

He said more than six lakh people across Uttarakhand had participated in the first pha...