After major Struggles Trinidad gets a Hindu radio station

July 13, 2006

PORT OF SPAIN: After several years of legal battles at

different levels, Trinidad and Tobago will get its

first 'Hindu' radio station.

The move comes after the British Privy Council ordered

the government to give the 'Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha'

(SDMS) led by Satnarayan Maharaj a radio licence

"forthwith".

The Law Lords ruled that "an appropriate frequency to

be agreed with by the Central Broadcasting Services

(CBS) Ltd., or in default of agreement, to be

determined by the High Court."

The state was also ordered to pay the SDMS costs of

brining its appeal to the Privy Council and those

incurred.

The station will be the first radio facility

"promoting" Hinduism in the Caribbean nation which has

a population of over 300,000 Hindus.

Meanwhile, Maharaj has called on Prime Minister

Patrick Manning to appoint a commission of inquiry

into the process by which the organisation was finally

granted its broadcasting licence.

"The drama is now beginning to unfold. We are not

satisfied merely with this judgment," he said, and

claimed that the "treatment meted out to the Maha

Sabha was consistent to that against the Hindu and

East Indian community if they did not support the

ruling People's National Movement."

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