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LUCKNOW: Hindu organisations have warned of dire penalties following a understand issued through the Railways to shift the 250-year-old Chamunda Devi Temple from the premises of Raja ki Mandi Railway Station in Agra. The hindu activists have even threatened to dedicate mass suicide if the railway government continue with the transfer.
Divisional Railway Supervisor (DRM) Anand Swaroop had issued a understand to the temple government to shift the construction from the railway station on April 20.
The awareness claimed that the temple needed to be shifted making an allowance for the concerns passengers had been being pressured to go through. If the temple isn’t got rid of, the railways should shift the platform, it was once mentioned.
Equivalent notices have been issued to a close-by mosque and a dargah as a part of an anti-encroachment power.
Opposing the awareness issued to the temple management, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal activists publish an enormous protest on the administrative center of the DRM for the Agra department of North Central Railway on Friday. They claimed that theirs was once a 300-year-old temple, which might now not be shifted at any value.
In keeping with temple priest Mahant Virendra Anand, he have been caring for the temple since his youth and his forefathers had additionally served there.
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Prashasti Srivastava, the divisional business supervisor and public members of the family officer for the Agra department of the North Central Railways, mentioned the encroachments had been being got rid of in compliance with the Superb Courtroom order.
“The notices to the temple, dargah and the mosque were despatched as part of the anti-encroachment power in compliance with the SC order. We now have additionally issued a understand to a mosque and a dargah positioned at the railway land within the premises of the Agra Cantt Railway Station. And they’ve been given time to provide their paperwork through Would possibly 13,” she mentioned.
The Hindu Jagran Manch has had little time for this argument and demanded motion in opposition to the Divisional Railway Supervisor, Agra for issuing the awareness to the temple control for the removing of the temple.
In the meantime, the dargah caretaker Tufail additionally traced its historical past and his circle of relatives’s reference to the monument. He claimed that he have been visiting the dargah for the final 25 years.
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“My grandfather got here to Agra within the Twenties. Since then, my circle of relatives has been coming right here. All of sudden, the railway began sending us notices. That is unfair and we can battle enamel and nail,” mentioned Tufail.
Railway officers have caught a understand at the dargah wall for everybody to peer. The respondents will cross to railway court docket on Would possibly 13 for the listening to.
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