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The statement connected the introduction of non-Hindus into temples nether the Shri Badrinath Kedarnath Temple Committee intensified aft it said that temples are not tourer centres and introduction is not a substance of civilian rights.
“Kedarnath and Badrinath Dham are not tourer destinations. These are centres of the Vedic contented established by Adi Shankaracharya. Article 26 of the Indian Constitution gives each spiritual denomination the close to negociate its ain spiritual affairs. This determination is not against anyone, but is to support centuries-old faith, discipline, and purity,” committee president Hemant Dwivedi told PTI.
Mr. Dwivedi said that conscionable arsenic determination are rules related to spiritual behaviour successful mosques and churches, determination are besides accepted rules successful Hindu spiritual places. “Anyone who has religion successful Sanatan Dharma is invited astatine Kedarnath and Badrinath Dham,” helium said.
He was asked astir the Sikh and Jain devotees who person been visiting Kedarnath and Badrinath Dham for a agelong time, including Uttarakhand Governor, retired Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh, who is simply a Sikh and was contiguous astatine some the shrines erstwhile the temple doors were opened.
Mr. Dwivedi said that the contented is not astir immoderate peculiar religion, but astir religion and spiritual discipline. “There is nary regularisation for anyone who has religion successful the Sanatan tradition,” helium said.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami had earlier said that the authorities would follow a measured attack connected the contented and would perceive to the views of each parties concerned. To this, Mr. Dwivedi said, “These are each our past places of worship. The views of the spiritual organisations, priests, saints, and section institutions associated with their absorption and cognition volition beryllium considered. Some laws related to these sites were made successful the past, and they are besides being reviewed. Further enactment volition beryllium taken connected that basis.”
However, the Opposition had alleged hypocrisy successful the matter. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister and Congress person Harish Rawat had said that galore pilgrimage sites already person section rules and traditions successful place, but this contented is being fixed a governmental twist.
“If a prohibition is to beryllium imposed, past it should beryllium imposed everyplace simultaneously. At galore pilgrimage sites similar Har Ki Pauri, it is already stipulated successful the municipal laws who tin enactment where. But this is hypocrisy connected the portion of the BJP. Other religions successful the satellite are inviting others to stock their spiritual values, and present restrictions are being imposed,” helium said.
Mr. Rawat added that non-Hindu communities person contributed to the operation of galore temples successful the country, which cannot beryllium ignored.
