Shocking News : Christian Missionaries taking over Temples in Andhra Pradesh

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Y. SAMUEL RAJASHEKHAR REDDY THE MAN BEHIND THE LATEST CRUSADE AGAINST

HINDUS TAKES ONE BIG STEP.

 

 

>From : Ramanujam

Dear Mr. Kishan,

Do you know that the A.P. government also proposes to leave the management of

the smaller Temples with no income to be run by the local Bhaktas. They propose

to divest themselves from the resposibility to run them under the

Religious Endowments act. At the same time the management of the few bigger

Temples like Tirupathi will be with the government. They can siphon off the

income from these Temples to the Wakf boards and churches and leave the Temples

with no income to fend for themselves. That will be a total annihilation of all

small Temples. And now they want to take over the Mutts because they can

effectively strangle the mutts and stop them from spearheading movements

againnst the anti Hindu elements in the government and their blatant anti Hindu

actions. This a grand scheme and a conspiracy which has no parallel against

Hinduism. The very proposals speak for themselves and the hidden agenda behind

them.

Regards,

Ramanujam.

 

 

>"Krishan Bhatnagar" <krishan.kb

Letter to Shri Singhalji -- AP Govt. plan to take over Mutts and Trusts

is suppression of Hindu religion

>AP Govt. plans to take over all Hindu Mutts and trusts and run

 

Tirupati as a tourist center are anti- Hindu moves to suppress Hindus religious

rights, demolish Hindu religious infrastructure and de- Hinduise India

 

Aadarniya Shri Singhal ji,

Here is some deeply shocking news -- the Andhra Pradesh Govt. has decided to

take absolute control of Hindu mutts, and is also considering bringing Hindu

religious trusts under its control (attachment A). Further, Chief

 

Minister Dr. Samuel Reddy has revived the Tirupati ropeway plan and convert

Tirupati into a tourist center. Andhra Pradesh Tourist Development Corporation

(APTDC) chairman and managing director J. Raymond Peter says the visitors' zone

project is an important part of the government's plan to develop Tirupati into

an A-class tourist destination (attachment B).

 

These blasphemous moves need urgent action to thwart Govt. initiatives to

further demolish the Hindu religious infrastructure.

 

Special note should be taken of the fact that historically the entire seven

hills region at TTD is very sacred for Hindus and it is an integral part of the

Hindu history. Therefore, respecting the Hindu sentiments, any improvements in

the Hindu religious infrastructure must be undertaken by the Hindu community in

its entirety. And the development of the town must be carried out with the

approval and under the supervision of the Hindu community. This town is highly

sacred to Hindus. Therefore, the rightful role of Hindus must not be

surrendered.

 

At this point in time may we suggest urgent actions for the following:

 

* Governance and Improvements of temples, mutts, their estates and temple towns

must be undertaken under the exclusive control of Hindus without any role for

the Govt. for it, except providing the budget for the projects. A Hindu

committee should be set up for this task which must come up with long range

plans.

 

* An ad hoc Hindu Council should be composed by Acharyas/VHP etc. to demand

partnership with Govt. for all development of the TTD and oversight of

"devasthans" and their estates now under Govt. control, pending their transfer

to a community Hindu Board.

 

Every place of Hindu worship and reverence is now under attack .

 

Sir, at Hyderabad you had recently "advocated the setting up of an autonomous

spiritual body to manage temple affairs, and that the VHP would organize a

nation-wide agitation to achieve the objective. It would be launched from Andhra

Pradesh" (attachment C). Such agitation could not be postponed any more, because

they are fast undermining the majority community by altering its traditional

cultural identity with a view to de-Hinduise India. Without a strong awakening

and a convincingly compelling response by the Hindus, the continuing serious

erosion of the Hindu Samaj can neither be halted nor reversed.

 

With respectful pranams

 

>

>Dr. Jagan Kaul December 1, 2005

>Krishan Bhatnagar

>Hindu Jagran Forum (Maryland, USA)

>email: krishan.kb

>

>

>

>================================================

>Attachment A

>

>State will take total control of all mutts

>Deccan Chronicle, November 24, 2005

>

>Hyderabad, Nov. 23: The State government has decided to take absolute

>control of Hindu mutts. The proposal has been pending for four years.

The

>State government is also considering bringing Hindu religious trusts

under

>its control. The government is planning to amend the AP Endowments Act

to

>enable the endowments commissioner to oversee the day-to-day

administration

>of mutts.

>

>Once the Act is amended, 181 mutts will come under the control of the

>endowments commissioner. According to sources, the law department has

>vetted the proposed amendment. An ordinance amending the Act is

expected

>after the winter session of the Assembly. Another amendment pertains to

 

>scrapping the clause which specifies that only officials above the age

of

>45 should be appointed as endowments commissioner.

>

>This is being done in the wake of the High Court nullifying the

appointment

>of IAS official J.S.V. Prasad as endowments commissioner, since he did

not

>fulfil the age requirement. Mutts such as Hathiramji of Tirupati,

>Raghavendra of Mantralaya, Byragi of West Godavari and Gavi in

Uravakonda

>in Anathapur, which have assets worth crores of rupees, would come

under

>the control of the government.

>

>This will strip many "financial powers" of the heads of mutts. For

>instance, "padu kanukalu" (offerings made to deities of temples run by

>mutts), will now go into a general account. Earlier, they were

considered

>the property of the mutt head. Sources said the government was also

keen on

>bringing wealthy Hindu religious trusts under its control but was yet

to

>take a concrete decision on the matter.

>

>==============================================

>Attachment B

>

>Holy ire as YSR revives the Tirupati ropeway plan

>

>Outlookindia.com, December 5, 2005

>MADHAVI TATA

>

>Faith may be a short and simple word. But it is what drives 50,000-odd

>pilgrims to the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala every day. It is

also

>what makes the temple the richest in the country, with an annual budget

of

>Rs 630 crore, fixed assets of Rs 10,000 crore and jewellery worth Rs

5,000

>crore

>

>So it wasn't surprising that the globalisation-friendly Chandrababu

Naidu

>government drew up ambitious plans to develop Tirupati as a tourist

spot as

>well. The project included a religious theme park (Rs 20 crore),

multiplex

>shopping complex (Rs 16 crore), star hotels and a Rs 91-crore ropeway

from

>Alipiri to Tirumala. The ropeway would waft pilgrims to the hillock

while

>allowing them to take in the scenic sight below. In 2002, the Tirumala

>Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which runs the temple, allotted Rs 117

acres

>at Alipiri, the foothills of the Tirumala, to the state's tourism

>development corporation (APTDC) for the scheme.

>

>However, there was strident opposition from the Agama Advisory

Committee

>(panel of priests and experts who have the say over the temple's

>traditions) and prominent pontiffs like Chinna Jeer Swamy and Kanchi

seer

>Jayendra Saraswati, forcing Naidu to cancel the project a year later.

The

>land was then returned to the TTD.

>

>For the priests, a cable car for pilgrims up to the temple is like

gliding

>above the lord's head.

>

>However, two weeks ago, chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy gave the

>go-ahead to the ropeway and asked the APTDC to take up the scheme in a

>time-bound manner. He opines that the cable car will reduce pollution

and

>curtail accidents on the ghat road. But horrified local Agama advisors

>regard this as a deadly sin. They believe that the 6.3-km cablecar

ropeway

>to Tirumala will violate the age-old shastras and traditions. According

to

>them, the ropeway would disturb meditating deities, saints and spirits

>present among the Seshachalam hills in invisible form.

>

>"The hill on which the temple stands is Vishnu swaroopam (Lord Vishnu's

 

>form). To travel over the Lord's head is a cardinal sin," says C.

>Rayabhattacharyulu, an Agama expert. He adds that if the government

insists

>on going ahead with the project, several powerful religious bodies

would

>move court to obtain a stay order to ensure there's no violation of the

 

>holy airspace.

>

>Another open opponent of the project is the Vaikhanasa Peetham, a

powerful

>religious institution at Tirupati. G. Prabhakaracharyulu, in charge of

the

>peetham at Tirumala, says the devotees come for the Lord's darshan with

 

>purity of thought. "The government is trying to convert a holy place

into a

>picnic spot. I mean, do you really want to see an imax theatre here?"

>

>Interestingly, the temple's chief priest Ramana Deekshitulu, who also

heads

>the Agama Advisory Committee, is reluctant to voice an opinion. "We

need to

>examine the Agama shastras, puranas and dharma shastras and then brief

the

>TTD," he says. Asked how the same board that objected to the cable car

in

>2003 could possibly okay it now, Deekshitulu says two members had

opposed

>it then. "But the committee will examine it afresh. Whatever decision

is

>made will be collective."

>

>Meanwhile, APTDC chairman and managing director J. Raymond Peter says

the

>visitors' zone project is an important part of the government's plan to

 

>develop Tirupati into an A-class tourist destination. The cable car,

says

>Peter, won't fly over the temple but would transport 40,000 pilgrims

every

>day to its base. Peter, who is back in India after a five-year stint

with

>the World Bank in the US, feels the AP government should follow the

>American method of utilising the existing infrastructure of a place and

 

>developing it into a tourist destination. "Providing hotels, parks or a

 

>ropeway at Alipiri will induce tourists going to Tirupati to stay back

>longer. Think of the employment this would generate," says Peter.As the

 

>arguments continue, the gap between local religious sentiments and

>American-inspired mass tourism grows ever wider-perhaps too wide for

the

>ropeway to bridge.

>

>===============================================

>

>Attachment C

>

>A) VHP movement to protect Hindu temple property

>2005-11-12 Published by new kerala.com Gathered by Press Trust of India

>HYDERABAD,NOVEMBEr 12:Vishwa Hindu Parishad International President

Ashok

>Singhal saturday announced a country-wide agitation against the Andhra

>Pradesh government for allegedly using assets of Hindu temples to

''develop

>wakf properties''. Inaugurating a two-day National ''Mutt Mandir

>conference'', organised to protect the sanctity and property of Mutts

and

>Mandirs here, he demanded a white paper on the revenue generated by

various

>Hindu temples and how they were spent.

>

>Advocating the setting up of an autonomous spiritual body to manage

temple

>affairs, Mr Singhal said the VHP would organise a nation-wide agitation

to

>achieve the objective. It would be launched from Andhra Pradesh. He

charged

>that not even 25 per cent of temple revenue in the state was being

utilised

>for development of dilapidated temples and the cause of Hindu

spiritualism.

>The VHP would demand an ordinance for protection of Hindu property and

>setting up an autonomous body. He said the revenue of Hindu temples

should

>not be used for any purpose other than temple development and the Hindu

 

>cause.

>

>====================================

>

>B) VHP calls on Hindus to protect temples

> November 13, 2005

>Published by newindpress.com Gathered by

>United News of India

>

>HYDERABAD,NOVEMBER 13: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international

president

>Ashok Singhal on Sunday said all Hindus must start a Bhaktha mandali in

 

>every temple to maintain them in accordance with the age-old religious

and

>cultural traditions. Alleging that the ideal system which was

functioning

>for thousands of years in the temples was being eroded due to

>administrative negligence, Mr Singhal told newsmen.

>

>The bhaktha mandalis should strive to revive the ideal system of the

>functioning of the temples.

>

>Demanding the centre to enact a law to free the temples from the

clutches

>of the state governments and release a white paper on temple

properties, he

>said VHP would launch a massive movement to protect temples and their

>properties if the centre does not respond to their demands. Stating

that

>34,000 temples in Andhra Pradesh, 34,000 in Tamil Nadu, two lakh each

in

>Kerala and Karnataka were being neglected by the governments, he said

many

>important temples had been taken away by

>the archaeological departments for research. Mr Singhal said 5 lakh

acres

>of temple lands were in the

>hands of government in the state.

>

>Referring to the Ayodhya issue, he said the VHP would take concrete

steps

>to construct Ram temple during this year. The construction of the

temple

>would be completed in one year after the works start. Answering a

question,

>Mr Singhal said the arrest of Kanchi seer Shankacharya was an insult to

 

>Hindu community