The residents of Thrissur district were saddled with another 'hartal' today. This was called by the Hindu Aikya Vedi to protest the take over of the Sri Parthasarathy temple (Near the Guruvayur railway station) at about 3 AM yesterday by the Malabar Devaswom Board. Why they had to do it surreptitiously beats me, the botched attempts, earlier, notwithstanding?
The administration of the temple was being carried out by a committee drawn from the local population all these years. The Malabar Devaswom Board has been trying to take over the temple for the last eight years but without success and there are many cases pending, in this regard, in various courts. The present take over has been carried out on the basis of the High Court's interim order of 01 Nov.
A posse of about 140 policemen guards the temple since yesterday morning. What is the real story?
Some of the stories doing the rounds are:-
(a) The ousted temple administration was deemed to be corrupt.
(b) Whenever the LDF comes to power, its government has initiated similar takeovers. This is one
such exercise begun during its previous regime.
(c) The cash rich temples are taken over and the income, thus acquired, is transferred into the
bottomless pit called the government coffers.
(d) The maintenance of such 'taken over' temples become the last priority to the new stake holders.
My take.
(a) What is being achieved by the take overs?
(b) If it's for streamlining the system and to stop corruption, the Devaswom Boards have also not
acquitted themselves, above board, in this regard.
(c) Why are the take overs selective? Why can't the entire lot of temples, in the state, be taken over
and placed under an efficient, corruption free Devaswom Board?
(d) The Boards' functioning must be subjected to periodic audits. The upkeep of the temples must
be an ongoing priority.
(e) Seeing the government's alacrity regarding the take over of the temples, why is it not taking
over churches and mosques? I'm sure many of them are not free of the common ills of
corruption/mismanagement.
This brings one to the basic doubts on the subject which are:-
(a) Why do the take overs happen only when the LDF is in power?
(b) Isn't the UDF not bothered about the colossal corruption that goes on in the name of
propitiating the gods?
(c) Or is it just a communist action plan to have a control of its Hindu vote bank?
Tailpiece.
A day that had thoroughly gone waste. What did the perpetrators of the 'hartal' achieve in the end except for causing great suffering and difficulty to the common man? The sad part is that it's the Thrissur district that has been subjected to the maximum 'hartals', this year!
The administration of the temple was being carried out by a committee drawn from the local population all these years. The Malabar Devaswom Board has been trying to take over the temple for the last eight years but without success and there are many cases pending, in this regard, in various courts. The present take over has been carried out on the basis of the High Court's interim order of 01 Nov.
A posse of about 140 policemen guards the temple since yesterday morning. What is the real story?
Some of the stories doing the rounds are:-
(a) The ousted temple administration was deemed to be corrupt.
(b) Whenever the LDF comes to power, its government has initiated similar takeovers. This is one
such exercise begun during its previous regime.
(c) The cash rich temples are taken over and the income, thus acquired, is transferred into the
bottomless pit called the government coffers.
(d) The maintenance of such 'taken over' temples become the last priority to the new stake holders.
My take.
(a) What is being achieved by the take overs?
(b) If it's for streamlining the system and to stop corruption, the Devaswom Boards have also not
acquitted themselves, above board, in this regard.
(c) Why are the take overs selective? Why can't the entire lot of temples, in the state, be taken over
and placed under an efficient, corruption free Devaswom Board?
(d) The Boards' functioning must be subjected to periodic audits. The upkeep of the temples must
be an ongoing priority.
(e) Seeing the government's alacrity regarding the take over of the temples, why is it not taking
over churches and mosques? I'm sure many of them are not free of the common ills of
corruption/mismanagement.
This brings one to the basic doubts on the subject which are:-
(a) Why do the take overs happen only when the LDF is in power?
(b) Isn't the UDF not bothered about the colossal corruption that goes on in the name of
propitiating the gods?
(c) Or is it just a communist action plan to have a control of its Hindu vote bank?
Tailpiece.
A day that had thoroughly gone waste. What did the perpetrators of the 'hartal' achieve in the end except for causing great suffering and difficulty to the common man? The sad part is that it's the Thrissur district that has been subjected to the maximum 'hartals', this year!
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