Satara, 18 Mar (HS): The fourth

Maharashtra State Temple Trust conference is being organised at Swaraj Mangal

Kalyalaya, Satara on March 22. About 1,000 trustees, representatives and Pujaris

from various Hindu temples across the state are expected to participate. Those

fighting for protection of Hindu temples are also participating, Maharashtra

Temple Trust Organising Secretary Sanjay Joshi informed at a press conference

in Satara.

The issues to be discussed includes attacks

in various forms on temples in the name of ‘Secularism’, take over by

government, corruption in temples, grabbing temple land, claims on temple land

by Waqf boards, impurity in Prasad etc.

The organisation is of more than 17,000

trustees, priests, religious organisations and devotees. Prominent persons from

various fields including Horticulture Minister Bharat Gogawale, Girish Shah of

Jain Mandir, scholar in temple history and writer Sandip Sinh, Yogi

Niranjannath Maharaj from Alandi, National Convenor of Mandir Mahasangh Sunil

Ghanwat etc will attend the conference.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar