Chikkaballapur Dalit couple allegedly refused Temple hall for wedding: Notice issued to Trust
Chikkaballapur: Activists of Dalit organizations have complained to the tahsildar against the manager of a temple under the Muzrai Department here for refusing to rent the temple hall for the wedding of a couple belonging to Scheduled Caste.
The activists have urged the tahsildar to take action against the manager of Sri Lakshmi Venkataramanaswamy Temple near Santhe Maidan in town.
The tahsildar, in response has issued a show cause notice to the manager of the Temple Development Trust, said sources.
The wedding of Mahesh of Bagepalli taluk and Venkatalakshmi, daughter of Venkatarayappa of Brahmanarahalli in Chikkaballapur taluk and belonging to Scheduled Caste, was reportedly fixed for Thursday, November 3. A fortnight before the wedding, the bride’s brothers met Machavalahalli Venkatarayappa, secretary of the Temple Trust, requesting the secretary to rent the wedding hall of the Temple for Venkatalakshmi’s wedding. The secretary said that the hall had been rented out for another function on the same date. On checking, however, no event was found organized on Thursday at the hall.
The wedding troupe, therefore, reached the Temple on Thursday to carry out the ceremony in the front yard, but found the wedding hall as well as the Temple locked, the sources added.
A complaint was filed with the tahsildar, accusing the Temple Trust of rejecting a request for the hall on rent as the would-be couple belonged to Scheduled Caste although the hall was free on the day, and although the Temple was under the Muzrai Department.
Machavalahalli Venkatarayappa has reportedly been sent a show cause notice from the tahsildar’s office. He has been asked to clarify in writing within three days since the Temple belonged to the Muzrai Department but the action of the Trust was objectionable. The manager has also been warned that legal action would be taken if he failed to explain the Trust action.
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'Rear-guard action': BJP over Mamata accepting sports minister's resignation after Messi event
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week.
BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor governance of Banerjee, her ministers and the state bureaucracy.
Banerjee on Tuesday accepted Biswas' resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Messi's event last week, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said.
Biswas, who had written to the chief minister seeking to be relieved of his responsibilities as sports minister, will continue as a cabinet minister, retaining charge of the power department.
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Reacting to the development, Malviya said in a post on X, "TMC Sports Minister Aroop Biswas resigns after the Messi fiasco and Mamata Banerjee accepts it in record time."
"Do not mistake this for accountability; this is nothing but a rear-guard action to douse public anger. anger! This is not 'Raj Dharma'," he added.
The BJP leader alleged that the incident was the outcome of "loot" of common people which is "so synonymous" with the TMC.
The incident was also the outcome of the "shameless VIP culture that TMC thrives on and deep-rooted cronyism promoted by Banerjee," he charged.
Malviya further alleged that Biswas' resignation exposes a "collective failure of Mamata Banerjee, her partisan bureaucracy, and her crony cabinet".
"This is a symbolic sacrifice, a political hoax, soon to be buried under layers of bureaucracy, with no justice, no accountability, and no remorse," the BJP leader said, adding, "No resignation will bring back the time lost, the money wasted, or the stolen chance for football lovers to witness Messi in Kolkata."
