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BJP demands Delhi govt pay salaries to temple priests too

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New Delhi: The BJP organised a protest outside the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against the city’s government’s “continuous discrimination” against temple priests.
More than 5,000 seers and priests from different areas of Delhi shouted slogans demanding the Kejriwal government pay them a monthly salary like for imams of mosques.
State BJP Working President Virendra Sachdeva, Leader of Opposition Ramveer Singh Bidhuri, MPs Manoj Tiwari and Ramesh Bidhuri and former Mayor Jaiprakash addressed the protest organised by the BJP Temple Cell.
Leader of Opposition Ramveer Singh Bidhuri said if imams of the mosques are being given a salary, then why not the priests of temples.
Tiwari claimed that the Hindu society is most tolerant, but when its tolerance ends, a war like the one in Mahabharata occurs. “Today, Kejriwal is behaving like Duryodhan with the priests of the temples of Delhi, which will not be tolerated,” he said, adding the BJP is determined that the priests should also get all the arrangements or facilities which other communities are getting.
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February 7, 2023
Karnataka: Petition to prevent non-Hindu traders from temple premises submitted

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Tumakuru: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal have submitted a petition to the Deputy Commissioner of Tumakuru city in Karnataka asking the authorities to prevent traders of other faiths to carry out business within the premises of a historical temple during the celebration of a festival.
The three-day festival will take place at the historical Gosala Gubbi Channabasaveshwara temple from Thursday.
To avoid any untoward incident, authorities have already beefed up the security in the area.
In their petition, the two Hindu groups warned of a response if such traders are allowed to carry out business directly or indirectly in the premises of the temple or in a 100-meter surrounding.
They have also requested the police department to ensure the implementation of clauses of the law in the Muzrai department in this regard.
“The clause is very clear that there is no scope for persons of other religions to carry out business in the premises of temples and at religious fares. This law should be enforced,” VHP President G.K. Srinivas said.
The boycotting trend which seemed to have settled down in Karnataka comes to the fore again with the latest development.

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February 2, 2023
Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi Visit Kheer Bhawani Temple, Hazratbal Shrine In Kashmir

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SRINAGAR: Senior Congress leader and Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi, his sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar and Kheer Bhawani temple in Ganderbal on Tuesday morning.
According to news agency KDC Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra accompanied by senior congress leaders visited Kheer Bhawani temple in Ganderbal and Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar.
Rahul Gandhi on late Monday evening along with others pushed a private car that was stuck in snow on the Boulevard road in Srinagar.
Sharing a video on his official YouTube channel, Rahul Gandhi was seen pushing a car, which was stuck as the city received snowfall on Monday.
In the video Rahul Gandhi was also seen walking on the Boulevard road along the famous Dal Lake in Srinagar and also interacted with locals including boatmen and vendors.
An official said that Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka along with other Congress leaders have left for Delhi.

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January 31, 2023
Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi visit Kheer Bhawani temple in Ganderbal

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Gandarbal, Jan 31: Congress leader and Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi and his sister and party General Secretary Priyanka gandhi Vadra on Tuesday visited Mata Kher Bhawani temple in Tulmulla area of Ganderbal.
Reports reaching the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), said the duo was accompanied by other leaders from J&K Congress.
They said the duo paid obeisance and also prayed at the revered temple ,” they said.—(KNO)
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January 31, 2023
Three booked for proscribing Dalits from attending feast at temple in UP’s Bareilly

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Bareilly: Three people have been booked for allegedly refusing to allow Dalits to participate in a feast here in Rajpur Kalan village of the Aonla area, held after recitation of Bhagvad Gita, police said on Monday.
The accused, all of them organisers of the feast, were booked Sunday night at Aonla Police Station, Additional SP, Rajkumar Agarwal said.
The incident happened on January 26 in the Kali Temple premises where the feast was held. When some people from the Scheduled Caste community reached there to attend the feast, they were allegedly asked to sit separately and later, were denied permission to attend it.
Bheem Army leader Ajay Pradhan with his supporters filed a complaint in the matter against three brothers — Sunderlal, Roshan Maurya, and Nanhe Maurya, who were booked under sections of IPC and SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act. A probe is on in the matter.
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January 30, 2023
Dalits enter TN village temple for first time in 70 years

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Tiruvannamalai: For the first time in about 70 years, Dalits offered prayers in their village temple near here on Monday following ‘peace’ talks facilitated by the district authorities with dominant castes.
Amid tight police security, in the presence of top district and police officials, villagers belonging to the Scheduled Castes entered the temple premises with garlands, flowers and others offerings to the presiding deity. Amid palpable excitement, they hailed the deity with chants and offered prayers.
The village is Thenmudiyanur under Thandrampattu taluk in northern Tiruvannamalai district and the place of worship is Muthumariyamman temple, a goddess Shakti shrine.
While authorities did not specifically mention that it is for the first time that Dalits are visiting the village temple, people belonging to the Scheduled Castes said that they are entering the shrine for the first time. Local people are of the view that the temple is 80-year old. The government said it is 70-year old.
C Murugan, a Dalit resident told reporters: “For about 80 years, Dalits could not enter the village temple. The district authorities including police officials together have got us a new liberation to offer worship. We thank the authorities and the government. We are overwhelmed by boundless joy. I am 41 years old and I am standing on the temple footsteps for the first time. Such was the caste barrier in the village and the authorities have reformed the people”. A girl, also a Dalit said she was thrown out of the temple years ago and only now she could enter the shrine.
District Collector B Murugesh said the temple is 70-year old and belongs to the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department. Coinciding with the annual harvest festival of ‘Pongal,’ each community gets a day to offer ‘Pongal’ (A sweet dish made with rice and jaggery) in the temple premises and they make worship. It goes on for about 15 days. This year, the Adi Dravidar (SCs) people had sought permission to offer pongal. However, other sections of people opposed it, he told reporters.
“All are equal under the Indian Constitution. There must not be discrimination in any respect.” This was conveyed to those who opposed Dalit entry and peace talks were initiated by district authorities which includes police and revenue officials. Eventually, the issue was amicably settled and Dalits offered worship, he said.
Ahead of the temple entry, a team of officials, led by Deputy Inspector General of Police (Vellore range), M S Muthusamy and Police Superintendent (Tiruvannamalai district) K Karthikeyan held peace talks with villagers. They underscored that under the law all are equal and there must not be any kind of discrimination.

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January 30, 2023
MP: BJP leader Uma Bharti staying in Bhopal temple for stringent liquor policy

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Bhopal: Ahead of the Madhya Pradesh government’s likely announcement of a new liquor policy, BJP veteran Uma Bharti on Saturday reached a temple here where she would stay put till January 31 demanding the policy be made more stringent.
Bharti has been demanding appropriate amendments in liquor policy, which the state government releases every year, and incorporating more controls to promote de-addiction.
On Saturday afternoon, Bharti reached a temple located near a liquor shop in Ayodhya Nagar trisection and announced she will stay there till January 31 awaiting the liquor policy announcement. Bharti had earlier opposed the wine shop located near the temple.
The state government has not announced a date but a new liquor policy is generally announced in January end.
The former Union minister told reporters she had expressed a desire to tour various spots in Madhya Pradesh last November but the visit could not materialise for the lack of arrangements for her staff including security personnel.
“I have never demanded absolute prohibition. I said I would implement a total prohibition if it is in my control. I have full faith in Shivraj ji (MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan). I will wait for the decision about the liquor policy on January 31,” she said.
The former chief minister said she didn’t want the opposition Congress to benefit from her stand.
“If a controlled liquor policy, as I had told (to the BJP government), is implemented, the BJP will repeat its record victory like 2003,” she said.

The BJP had won 165 seats in the 230-member Assembly in the 2003 polls decimating Congress, which was in power at that time, to 58 seats. After that election, Bharti became the chief minister. She resigned after eight months.
The Assembly elections in MP are due in December this year.
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January 28, 2023
Ahobilam Mutt temple: SC refuses to entertain plea against AP HC order

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New Delhi: “Let the religious people deal with it,” the Supreme Court said on Friday while refusing to entertain a plea against an Andhra Pradesh High Court order holding that the state of Andhra Pradesh had no authority under law to appoint an executive officer to the Ahobilam mutt temple.
A bench of Justices S K Kaul and A S Oka said Andhra Pradesh has no authority, jurisdiction or entitlement under law to appoint an executive officer of the ‘Sri Ahobila Mutt Parampara Aadheena Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Devasthanam’ (Ahobilam Mutt Temple).
“Let the religious people handle this. In every case under Article 136 (special leave to appeal by the Supreme Court), we need not try to settle the law. Sorry,” the bench told the lawyer appearing for the state that had challenged the high court order.
One petition before the high court stated that the Ahobilam temple, situated in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, has been under the control of Sri Ahobilam Mutt, which is based in Tamil Nadu, since time immemorial.
The state of Andhra Pradesh and others had challenged the October 13, 2022, high court order, which said the Ahobilam temple is an “integral and inseparable part of the Ahobilam Math, which was established as a part of the propagation of Hindu religion and for rendering spiritual service for propagating Sri Vaishnavism”.
The high court had said appointing an executive officer for the temple, which is a part of the Mutt, is violative of Article 26(d) of the Constitution as it affects the right of administration of Jeeyars’/Mathadipathis.
The high court had passed the order on separate petitions questioning the appointment of an executive officer of the ‘Devasthanam’.
The state claimed in its plea that the high court had erred in holding that the Commissioner of the Endowments department does not possess the power to appoint an executive officer to take charge of the administration of the temple under section 29 of the Andhra Pradesh Religious Endowments and Charitable Institutions Act 1987 simply because the temple is affiliated with the Ahobilam Mutt.

“The high court failed to appreciate that the subject temple and the Ahobilam Math are distinct, independent juristic persons and thus, the subject temple’s inclusion in the definition of ‘Math’ is simply incongruous,” it said.
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January 27, 2023
Anant Ambani, fiance offer prayers at Tirumala temple

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Tirupati: Business tycoon Mukesh Ambani’s younger son Anant Ambani and his fiance Radhika Merchant offered prayers at the Sri Venkateswara temple atop Tirumala Hills on Thursday.
Anant Ambani, the younger son of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani along with fiancé Radhika Merchant offered prayers at the hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara atop Tirumala Hills in Tirupati. #AndhraPradesh pic.twitter.com/q4CIMs0I8p
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The couple participated in various rituals, along with darshan at the hill shrine.
On January 19, Anant got engaged to Radhika, daughter of Shaila and Viren Merchant, at the Ambani residence Antilia in Mumbai.
On Tuesday, Anant visited the Jagannath temple in Puri, while the previous day, the Ambani scion had offered prayers at the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati.
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January 26, 2023
Mukesh Ambani’s son Anant visits Jagannath temple ahead of marriage

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Bhubaneswar: Business tycoon Mukesh Ambani’s younger son Anant Ambani on Tuesday visited the Jagannath temple in Puri and sought blessings before his marriage. This is his first visit to Puri after getting engaged to Radhika Merchant.
Junior Ambani expressed happiness after having darshan of the holy trinity at the temple.
“I am happy that I had a very good darshan of Lord Jagannath. I pray for his blessings,” he told the media outside the temple.
He remained inside the main temple for around 10 minutes and offered prayers to the trinity, before visiting Maa Bimala, Maa Laxmi and Mahavir temples, said a servitor.
Earlier, Anant arrived in Bhubaneswar from where he drove straight to Puri. Security arrangements were tightened for his visit to the Puri temple.
The Ambani scion had also visited Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati on Monday and sought the blessings of the Goddess.
On January 19, Anant got engaged to Radhika Merchant, daughter of Shaila and Viren Merchant, at the Ambani residence Antilia in Mumbai.

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January 25, 2023