Author: ChennaiOnline News Service
Publication: Yahoo News
Date: December 15, 2004
URL: http://in.news.yahoo.com/041215/54/2ihdx.html
DMK president M Karunanidhi today
denied that he had demanded the Tamil Nadu government to take over the
Sankara Mutt at Kancheepuram.
In a statement here, he said his
main concern was that the centuries-old mutt should be run properly.
"I have differences with the policies
of the mutt. But an institution, if it is helping the poor, students and
middle class, should be allowed to continue such efforts. For that, the
government, religious-minded persons and the Hindu Religious and Charitable
Endowments department should sit together and evolve a way to continue
the efforts of the mutt in helping the poor," he said.
He further said that he had never
demanded that the government should take over the mutt as "repeatedly reported
in a section of the media."
"It is against the press code of
ethics to repeat something which I have never demanded," he observed. (Our
Correspondent)
