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Central control sought over temple administration???????
Staff ReporterTemple Protection Movement demands a national body to handle the issues related to religious shrines??????????
With demands getting stronger from both Telangana and Seemandhra regions to retain Bhadrachalam temple in their sides post bifurcation, the Hyderabad-based Temples Protection Movement has indicated that religious places should not have regional boundaries.
The organisation, known for its stiff opposition to the State interference in temple matters, has claimed that the sorry state of affairs in the form of instability and chaos in the State is a result of a fall in spiritual values.
To ensure minimal government interference in the internal matters of religious shrines, temples should be brought under an autonomous Dharmika Parishad formed by the Union government.
"The issues related to endowments is a concurrent subject and hence the Centre can no longer shirk its responsibility, leaving the temples management to the whims and fancies of the State governments," said the movement's convener M.V. Soundara Rajan, the chief priest of the Chilkur Balaji temple in Hyderabad.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, he said that the Centre should form a body that would handle the temple matters. Akin to the tribunals on water sharing of rivers, Dr. Rajan said, the temples too should have a Central control.
"Against the 5 per cent contributed by temples to the government exchequers in other States, Andhra Pradesh contributes a whopping 12 per cent, the highest in the country. Still, we don't know why the State has not cared to constitute a Dharmika Parishad," he wondered.
'Bifurcation a nightmare'
Dubbing the State's bifurcation a 'nightmare', he said the Group of Ministers (GoM) was apprised of the above issues, but their views elicited no response. The GoM was enlightened on the need to make the amended Endowments Act 30/87 as a Central Act on the lines of the Wakf Act, to transfer the government's power to the Parishad and making the President of India constitute its panel, but to no avail.
Shrines should not have regional boundary, demands Temple Protection Movement convener M.V. Soundara Rajan
The Centre must not leave temples to the whims and fancy of State governments, he says
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IS THIS TEMPLE PROTECTION OR RELIGIOUS DESTRUCTION????????
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