Author: Our Staff Correspondent
Publication: Agencies
Date: January 6, 2005
URL: http://www.saag.org/BB/view.asp?msgID=10602
[Note from Hindu Vivek Kendra:
In not asking the government to take over mosques and churches, Shri Wodeyar
is effectively saying that they are epitomes of social justice.]
The Kanaka Yuvaka Sangha has urged
the Government to take over all temples run by mutts.
K.R. Mahesh Wodeyar, advocate and
sangha president, told presspersons here on Wednesday that the Supreme
Court had ordered take over of Udupi Srikrishna Temple from the control
of mutts. The apex court's order enables the Government to apply the same
yardstick to all temples under the control of various mutts.
Mr. Wodeyar said he saw a relation
between the confusion over the Kanaka Gopura in Udupi and the controversy
over the Datta Peetha in Chikmagalur. The Government must seize the opportunity
and derive strength from the Supreme Court order (in the matter of Srikrishna
Temple) and act against disruptive forces creating trouble in the name
of temples. All the mutts must be divested of control over temples. Social
justice was possible only if the Government managed all temples, he said.
He warned the Government against
ignoring the Supreme Court order in the matter.
Our Davangere Staff Correspondent
reports:
Sri Vishvesha Tirtha of Pejawar
Mutt has said that the Supreme Court had issued a decree that the temple
in Udupi belonged to the eight mutts (ashta mutts) and the Muzrai Department
has no control over any temple run by the ashta mutts. It "will be a gross
violation" of Supreme Court's order if the Government took over the Udupi
Krishna Temple, he added. The swamiji told presspersons that he was confident
that the coalition Government in the State would not take such a step.
