[Reader-list] Land should be given to Amarnath Shrine Board: Ramdev

[inder salim]

this he said in case BJP comes to power, enabling him to demand a
cabinet berth; such is the tradition of BJP and other right wingers

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Aditya Raj Kaul
<kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> *Land should be given to Amarnath Shrine Board: Ramdev*
>
>
> *New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS)* Yoga Guru Ramdev Thursday called for an end to
> the row over transfer of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board that has claimed
> at least 40 lives, but maintained that the Jammu and Kashmir government
> should allot the land to the temple trust. "The Amarnath Shrine Board must
> be allotted land to erect temporary structures for pilgrims. This is our
> country and the land belongs to us. Why should we be scared to acquire it
> from the Jammu and Kashmir government?" Ramdev told a packed a media
> conference here.
>
> "It is a shame that the government cannot allot its own land to the temple
> and its own people," the spiritual leader and Vedic healer said on his
> return from the US, where he had been for the past one-and-half months.
> Ramdev has been campaigning for transfer of land to the shrine board.
>
> He said the remarks by a section of people that India was trying to create
> an Israel-like situation in Kashmir and comparing the state to Palestine,
> were a threat to the country's communal mosaic.
>
> The Amarnath Yatra is an important annual pilgrimage for Hindus across the
> world.
>
> Land was allotted to the Amarnath Shrine Board, which manages the temple, to
> build temporary shelters for pilgrims. But the order had to be revoked
> following violent protests in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir valley,
> triggering a backlash in Jammu, which has a dominant Hindu population.
>
> The guru also linked the issue of the "resettlement" of the Kashmiri Hindu
> oustees, who were forced to leave the state when insurgency in the state
> peaked during the 1990s, to his Amarnath crusade.
>
> He said the displaced Kashmiri Hindu Pandit community should be re-settled
> in Kashmir.
>
> "Along with the land for the Amarnath Shrine Board, land should also be
> earmarked for the displaced Hindu Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley so that
> they can have a homeland. Their security can be handed over to the Indian
> Army," Ramdev said.
>
> Speaking about his mission in the US, Ramdev said his yoga foundation, the
> Patanjali Yog Peeth, was building a sprawling Vedic yoga and traditional
> Indian therapy centre on 94 acres of land in Houston, Texas.
>
> "For the first time, the Patanjali Yog Peeth is also setting up limited
> liability companies attached to the facilities abroad to patent and
> trademark its ayurvedic products so that they are not hijacked by
> foreigners," the guru told IANS.
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