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

[Pawan Durani]

Maybe Inder should demand that land should be given to the Waqf ?

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:42 AM, inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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