Mysuru: Senior BJP MLA SA Ramadoss has introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the Assembly to regularize illegal temple Made in the state after 2009. Titled the Regularization of Unauthorized Hindu Temples Bill, 2021, it will come up for discussion on September 23.
Ramadoss said he would appeal to Congress members including Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar and JD(S) members HD Kumaraswamy and HD Revanna to support the bill and save the temples.
“The absence of a law to regularize Hindu temples has resulted in some being broken. In other states, temples are protected from demolition through a separate law/rule,” he said.
Ramdas said: “The Bill allows relocation of temples which cannot be regularized or cause serious inconvenience to the public. A competent authority is proposed to regularize temples at the taluk level. If the government decides to bring a new Act, I will withdraw the bill.
We will rebuild the demolished temple: Arun Singh
BJP national general secretary in-charge of Karnataka BJP Arun Singh said the party plans to rebuild the temple that was demolished recently in Huchagani village of Nanjangud taluk. Speaking to reporters at Davangere on the sidelines of the BJP’s state executive meeting, Singh said the party believes in building and preserving temples, not demolishing them. “We will rebuild the temple at the same place,” he said. He slammed the Congress for criticizing the BJP government over the demolition. Describing Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah as anti-Hindu, Singh said: “I wonder since when has he started talking about temples. He always talked about mosques.”
BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel said the government was examining the documents of the land on which the temple stands and if possible it would be rebuilt at the same place. The matter also came to the fore in the BJP core committee meeting and it was decided to make efforts to legally protect the temples earmarked for demolition.
Ramadoss said he would appeal to Congress members including Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar and JD(S) members HD Kumaraswamy and HD Revanna to support the bill and save the temples.
“The absence of a law to regularize Hindu temples has resulted in some being broken. In other states, temples are protected from demolition through a separate law/rule,” he said.
Ramdas said: “The Bill allows relocation of temples which cannot be regularized or cause serious inconvenience to the public. A competent authority is proposed to regularize temples at the taluk level. If the government decides to bring a new Act, I will withdraw the bill.
We will rebuild the demolished temple: Arun Singh
BJP national general secretary in-charge of Karnataka BJP Arun Singh said the party plans to rebuild the temple that was demolished recently in Huchagani village of Nanjangud taluk. Speaking to reporters at Davangere on the sidelines of the BJP’s state executive meeting, Singh said the party believes in building and preserving temples, not demolishing them. “We will rebuild the temple at the same place,” he said. He slammed the Congress for criticizing the BJP government over the demolition. Describing Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah as anti-Hindu, Singh said: “I wonder since when has he started talking about temples. He always talked about mosques.”
BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel said the government was examining the documents of the land on which the temple stands and if possible it would be rebuilt at the same place. The matter also came to the fore in the BJP core committee meeting and it was decided to make efforts to legally protect the temples earmarked for demolition.
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