Dharmapuram Adheenam withdraws protest after government assurance

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Following assurances from the State government, the Dharmapuram Adheenam has announced the withdrawal of its projected protestation implicit demolition of the aged maternity infirmary gathering successful Mayiladuthurai.

The Adheenam had objected to the projected demolition of the 70-year-old building, which erstwhile housed a escaped maternity infirmary established successful 1951 by the 24th pontiff of the mutt successful representation of his mother. The infirmary was aboriginal handed implicit to the municipal medication for maintenance. However, arsenic the operation fell into disuse, the municipality decided to raze it for constructing a caller bureau analyzable astatine a outgo of ₹7.85 crore.

Expressing absorption to the move, the 27th pontiff Sri La Sri Masilamani Desika Gnanasambanda Paramacharya had precocious announced a hunger onslaught done a societal media post, appealing to the authorities to sphere the practice operation built by his predecessors.

Following this, Mayiladuthurai Municipality Commissioner Veeramuthukumar wrote to the Adheenam’s manager assuring that nary demolition enactment had been initiated. The pontiff subsequently announced that the protestation was being withdrawn temporarily.

On Wednesday, a gathering organised by the Tamil Nadu Spiritual Protection Council astatine the infirmary tract urged Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to see handing backmost the premises to the Dharmapuram Adheenam if the section assemblage was incapable to support it. The gathering saw the information of Dharmapuram Adheenam Kattalai Thambiran Srimath Sivagurunatha Swamigal, assembly president Pannai T. Sokkalingam, and representatives from respective Hindu organisations and governmental parties.

Published - October 08, 2025 08:26 p.m. IST

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