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| BJP asks Guv to withdraw decision of priority darshan | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 7
After voicing its concern over the new system of tatkal darshan at the Mata Vaishno devi shrine the state BJP Chief Ashok Khajuria has now reacted sharply to the setting up of three member committee by the shrine board.
The committee was constituted by the Board chairman Governor Lt Gen Retd SK Sinha to look in to the system of tatkal darshan and suggest fresh measures to regulate the pilgrim traffic in the bhawan shrine.
In a press statement BJP State President Ashok Khajuria said there is no need for such a committee as the very idea of charging extra money from the devotees whosoever they are for enabling them to have the darshan on priority basis is as discriminatory as it is unacceptable.
He said it would have been better had the State Governor & Chairman of the Shrine Board Lt. Gen.(Retd.) Shri S.K. Sinha withdrawn forthwith the decision on darshan on priority basis considering the furore it has created among the Hindus across the country.
Ashok Khajuria said the BJP believes that the Shrine Board’s decision to set up a committee is a tactic designed to buy time and confuse the yatris. He asked -is it not an act of discrimination against those pilgrims who come from far off places for darshan and who, unlike the rich and economically well off people, cannot afford to pay extra money for darshan, are made to spend more days at Katra or at Shri Vaishno Dham, thus making the pilgrimage for such people a very costly affair. He said every body needs to be treated equally as the decision on darshan on priority basis has the potential of creating ill-will not only between the rich and the poor but also between the poor and the Shrine Board.
Ashok Khajuria expressed the hope that the Chairman of the Shrine Board would rise to the occasion, respect the Hindu sentiments and withdraw that controversial decision forthwith so that a signal goes that the Shrine Board does not differentiate between rich and poor. He said any failure on his part to do so would simply mean that both the state government and the Shrine Board are one as for as their negative attitude to the non-Muslims of the state is concerned. |
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