Threat to Puri Shankaracharya: State govt orders district administration to act

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | February 22, 2020 IST

Puri, Feb 22: The state government has ordered concerned officials to take necessary action following a letter of the Govardhan Math administration seeking protection of the Math and Puri’s Shankaracharya Swami Nischalananda Saraswati. The Math administration had urged the Chief Minister and other departments of the state government to widen and clean the roads connecting to the Math concerning security of protocol holders and VVIPs. The Math administration had written to the state government on February 2 to tighen security arrangement in and around the Math following receipt of threatening calls to Puri’s Shankaracharya Swami Nischalananda Saraswati. Odisha government has handed over the control of the Govardhan Math to Puri’s Shankaracharya Swami Nischalananda Saraswati by taking it out of the purview of the Orissa Hindu Religious Endowment Act, 1951. The state government excluded the Govardhan Math from the Act considering the pre-eminence and unique place occupied by the Shankaracharya among Hindu religious institutions of state.

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