பிகாரில் கோவில்களின் முழு பொறுப்பும் தலித்துகளிடமே

பிகாரில் பல கோவில்களில் தலித்துகளையே பூசாரிகளாக நியமித்து சாதனை படைத்திருக்கிறது பிகார் அரசு.

அதனையும் மிஞ்சும் வண்ணம் பல கோவில்களுக்கு முழு தர்மகர்த்தா டிரஸ்டிகள் அனைவரும் தலித்துகளே இருக்கும் வண்ணம் பல கோவில்களுக்கு நியமித்துள்ளது.

இதில் மிகப்பெரிய காகி பாபா ராம் ஜானகி கோவிலும் அடக்கம். இந்த கோவில் தலித்துகளே முழு நிர்வாகமும், பூசாரிகளுமாக இருக்கிறார்கள்.

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An all-Dalit temple trust at Hilsa
12 Aug 2007, 0150 hrs IST,Faizan Ahmad ,TNN


PATNA: The affairs of the 300-year-old Khaki Baba Ram Janki Thakurbari at Hilsa will now be managed by an all-Dalit trust. Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts administrator Kishore Kunal said it would be country's first all Dalit trust of any temple.

Kunal, who has launched a campaign to install Dalit priests in important temples with the consent of the worshippers and Hindu society as a whole, said the suggestion for all-Dalit trust, coming from the mandir mahant and the local population, showed people have started shunning the age-old practice of non-touchability.

The trust has been constituted with a local school teacher hailing from Paswan caste as head and all its members
are Dalits belonging to castes like Ravidas, Chamar, Rajak and others, Kunal told TOI on Saturday.

He said he went to that temple to inquire into the complaints of illegal selling of temple land. He found that during the last several years, 26 acres of land were sold in two phases. The temple is now left with 13 acres of land and legal procedures have been initiated to get back the sold land.

Kunal, who is busy giving final touches to his second volume of his 1500-page work "Dalit Devo Bhava", has made it a point to install Dalit priests in temples.

He said at about half a dozen temples Dalit priests are leading prayers. "I have installed Dalit priests at temples in Hajipur, Bihta, Paliganj, Begusarai and other places with Vedic rituals, and, after convincing the people," said the former IPS officer.

He blamed the so-called dharma gurus of keeping the "Shudras" away from temples for over 2000 years while the holy scriptures preached otherwise.