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| KP’s seek re-drafted Temple Bill without dilution | | want all temples under the purview of the Bill |
Jammu, October 6 (Scoop News)-Various actual ground level working Management Committees of temples and shrines of Kashmir Valley have asked the government to re-draft and introduce a fresh Kashmiri Hindu Shrines and Religious Places (Management and Regulation) Bill during the next session of the Assembly but without any dilution by including each and every temple from Jawahar Tunnel to Uri under the purview of the proposed bill adding if government keeps any temple away from the purview of the Bill no management committee would let their temples to be taken over by the proposed board and stake holders would launch a nationwide agitation to expose the double standards of the government.
In a joint statement issued in this regard here today the Apex Body of Kashmiri Pandits, All Parties Migrants Coordination Committee (APMCC) leaders,alongwith representatives of various temple management committees working in Kashmir Valley and Hindu organizations of Jammu took serious exception to the fact that the government has allowed the Bill to lapse in the last session adding a fresh bill with all amendments proposed by the temple committees must be drafted in consultation with stake holders and all temples and holy places from Jawahar Tunnel to Uri brought under the bill without which no diluted temple bill would be accepted to the community.
,King Bharati, National Spokesperson,APMCC said that the like minded Hindu organizations of Kashmir and Jammu are one on this front adding government must remember the resolution of the actual ground level working management committees in which it was clearly mentioned that if any temple is kept outside the purview of the Bill they too won’t let their temples be overtaken by the board.
Advocate Arun Kandroo, Gen Secy APMCC and senior KP leader MK Yogi listed the proposed 15 amendments suggested by the working committees adding if the government tries to accommodate certain influential people by keeping temples under their control out of the purview of the Bill they will be forced to launch an agitation and won’t let the temples under their control to be taken over by the proposed board.
Soom Natn Saraf of Kapal Mochan Trust Shopian said that representatives of various ground level management committees have resolved that a diluted temple Bill won’t be acceptable to them as it were these management committees working on ground level in Kashmir who are the real stake holders of the temple movement in Kashmir Valley.
Girdhari Lal Bhat of Kheer Bhawani Tikkar said that government must take into confidence those who are working on actual ground level for the welfare of the temples in Kashmir while Rattan Lal Bhat, Chairman (Sharda Mata Trust, Bandipora) said that that the existing temple management committee’s should have the voting right to elect the members of the Board
Yoginder Singh Jamwal (Mata Katyayani & Bhoot Nath Temple Kakran), suggested inclusion of the Shamshann Bhoomi (cremation grounds) under the definitions of the shrines of Kashmiri Hindus in the Bill to protect them from encroachments.
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