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Sangh Parivar plans `Datta Peetha Yatra'

By Our Staff Correspondent

HASSAN, DEC. 28. The Sangh Parivar plans to organise a "Datta Peetha Sathya Sandesha Yatra'' to tell the people about what it calls "misinterpretation" of court orders and "concealment of the fact" that the Datta Peetha has existed for ages.

Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday after his release from the Mandya jail, the Chikmagalur MLA, C.T. Ravi, said that though the government records, including the revenue register of 1916 and computerised land records of 2004, indicate that Survey No. 195 of Jagara hobli belongs to "Inam Dattatreya Peetha'' and Survey No. 57 of Naagenahalli village to Bababudan Dargah, the Government is reluctant to accept these.

Mr. Ravi accused the Government of adopting an anti-Hindu stand to please the minorities.

Alleged

The Government, he alleged, is terrorising Datta devotees by arresting them, and 463 people were arrested in connection with Datta Jayanti celebration and the "Shobha Yatra." An additional 300 people were taken into custody as a preventive measure, he said.

Mr. Ravi said that though the district administration promised to allow Datta devotees to observe Datta Jayanthi in a peaceful but grand manner, the police did not allow them to put up banner and buntings.

He complimented the people for "boycotting the Government-sponsored'' Datta Jayanti celebration on Sunday.

To a question on the order issued by the Commissioner of Religious Endowments in 1989 based on the practices in vogue at the hill shrine prior to 1975, he said the court order speaks only about "administrative'' practices and not religious practices.

Writ petition

In 2001, the court had dismissed a writ petition, which questioned pujas. He questioned the order that only rituals that were being observed before 1975 would be allowed.

Mr. Ravi said the Yuva Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will collect funds and send them to the Prime Minister's Calamity Relief Fund.

The president of the Chikmagalur district unit of the BJP, Pranesh; the Moodigere MLA, Kumarasway; and the State Convener of the Datta Peetha Samvardhana Samithi, B.S. Vittal Rao, who were released from prison today, were present.

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