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Rahul Doddamani, State manager of Bodhagaya Mahabodhi Mahavihar Mukti Andolana and Upasika and Upasaka Charitable Trust, Karnataka, has said that a rally volition beryllium organised astatine Freedom Park, Bengaluru, connected December 6 to request the handover of Mahabodhi Mahavihar to Buddhist administration.
He was addressing a property league successful Yadgir connected Friday.
He said that Mahabodhi Mahavihar was built during the play of King Ashoka and was brought nether the power of the Hindu religion by the Bodhagaya Temple Act. This determination was wholly against the Constitution. Therefore, we petition the authorities to revoke specified a determination and manus implicit the Mahavihar to Buddhists, helium further said.
The Bengaluru’s projected rally is the preliminary mentation successful enactment of the nationwide agitation—Delhi Chalo for Liberation of Mahabodhi Mahavira—that is scheduled to beryllium held connected February 12, helium said, and added that astir 10,000 people, including the activists of assorted Dalit organisations, women’s organisations, students, Buddhists, and others, are expected to enactment successful Bengaluru.
Bhagwanth Anwar, an activist, said that Sannati, the humanities spot for Buddhists, should beryllium developed, arsenic declared successful the erstwhile year’s budget, successful 200 acres of the area, similar the Buddhavan exemplary that was developed successful Andhra Pradesh.
He besides urged the authorities authorities to signifier the ‘Karnataka Buddhist Development Board’ to make the Scheduled Castes and Buddhists economically and socially, and a vacation should beryllium declared for the Buddha Jayanthi celebration, and astir 5-10 acres of onshore should beryllium reserved successful each Gram and Taluk Panchayat limit, and besides astatine District Headquarters to found Buddha Vihar.
The State authorities should instrumentality contiguous enactment to support inscriptions of the King Ashoka’s epoch astatine Sannati, Maski, Gavimath, Palkigundu, Nittur, Udungol, Bharhmagiri, Jating Rameshwar, Rajghatta and different akin places.
Mareppa Bukkal, Naganna Kalladevanahalli, Kashinath Natekar, Venkatesh, Sharanu Natekar, Chandrakant Chalavadi, Honnappa, and Chandrappa were present.
