Mangalore: Hindu Vedike Opposes SC Order - Demands Regularization of Worship Centres
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS/SB)
Mangalore, Oct 18: Hindu Janajagruti Vedike held a protest rally accompanied by the cluster of devotees from Sharavu Mahaganapati temple condemning the orders issued by the Supreme Court to evict the
centres of worship standing on the public property. The protestors thereby demanded regularization of the said illegal structures.
The massive procession wound up at the deputy commissioner's (DC) office with the protestors raising slogans against the unilateral justice of the Supreme Court followed by a stage programme.
Delivering his keynote address, Laxmisha Gamblaka, Hindu Janajagruti Vedike district secretary claimed that the law which is supposedly framing a boundary for its people thereby is attempting to attack temples and hurt the faith of the people belonging to major community.
He said several religious centres and bhajana mandirs standing in the region since centuries including Iroli Somanatheshwara temple, Bajilakeri Mukhyaprana temple and Maroli Sooryanarayana temple among
others in the coastal districts are targeted huring sentiments of thousands of innocent Hindus.
Gamblaka said that the temples are not meant to be attacked by any of the vested interests and added that those temples should be made legal even if they fail to produce the documents pertaining to their rights on land as they are age-old temples of Tulunadu. He also appreciated the efforts put in by the police department through which a terrorist was arrested from Badiyadka, recently.
He also condemned the nationalization of temples and alleged that the DC V Ponnuraj was trying to evict the temples forcefully. He hoped that the DC would undergo a change of mind for good.
I V Rao, religious head and Somanatheshwara Temple Committee working president exuded the hope that the spiritual powers will not allow anyone to go ahead on the issue as all the targeted temples has a
history of more than 400 years.
Mohan Gowda, active member of vedike claiming that 640 temples have a history of 1,000 years and said that those temples existed even before the law come into existence. He also stressed that the attack on
Hinduism is a well-planned plot. He insisted the DC to regularize the roads of Dakshina Kannada district before eying the temples. He also said that red-tapism observed in the DC's office is condemnable.
He expressed his displeasure over the government’s act of not taking action against the mosques being illegally constructed, thus disturbing any new railway route the railway department plans to take
up in the future in the region. He also showed his dissent over the income earned by the Hindu temples being allegedly used by the government for the benefit of madrasas. He warned of severe action in case the court
neglects the procession rally organized by the vedike.
Ramesh Nayak of the vedike, Shashikant of vedike, Muralidhar of Koragajja Seva Samiti and devotees from religious centres and bhajana mandalis among others were present.
Later a memorandum was submitted to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa through DC. As many as 5,000 people took part in the protest rally held amidst heavy rain.