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MLA opposes takeover of Basavakalyan temple trust

Staff Correspondent

Bidar: Basavakalyan MLA Mallikarjun Khuba has opposed the plans of Basavakalyan Development Board to take over management of the Basaveshwara Temple Trust Education Society.

The trust has been managing the temple for many decades. It has a shopping complex as a source of revenue and an education society formed under the temple trust. The board plans to take over the temple, its complex and society. The trust members have no objection to the board taking over the temple. They want the complex and the society to remain with them because they organise religious functions every year from the rent earned from the shops in the complex.

The trust members are willing to part with the complex if the board provides separate building for the Veerashaiva community. This could be used as a community hall and a Kalyan Mantap.

The MLA clarified that he was not a member of the trust.

A large Basaveshwara statue would be installed at the entrance of Basavakalyan on Mumbai-Hyderabad National Highway, he said. The statue and its pedestal would be 100-foot high. It would be the tallest statue of the leader in the country, he said.

Mr. Khuba said a Shivaji Park would be built at Basavakalyan and it would house a library and research centre on Shivaji.

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