Per week after BJP MLA Harish Poonja delivered a provocative speech at an occasion held at a temple in Thekkaru in Karnataka’s communally delicate Dakshina Kannada district, the temple administration wrote to the members of the Muslim neighborhood within the village expressing remorse concerning the remarks made by the legislator.
The administration of Thekkaru Temple, underneath the Gopalkrishna Bhatrabail Devaragudde Seva Belief, held a gathering with Muslim leaders of the village lately. Following the assembly, representatives of the temple wrote to the Muslim Okkoota of the village, saying that phrases by the legislators had damage some members of the village.
“The administration committee of the temple regrets these phrases. Together with this, the committee welcomes the cooperation of your neighborhood. Sooner or later too, we hope that every one communities reside by cooperating with one another,” the letter issued by the temple administration, dated Could 7, learn.
The letter was in response to the Muslim Okkoota, which had written to the temple administration about Poonja’s speech on Could 3, following which a gathering was held between the leaders from each communities. Through the assembly, it was famous that members of the Muslim neighborhood had supplied donations and supplied a parking facility for devotees participating within the temple renovation occasion, aside from different help.
Poonja delivered the controversial speech on the night of Could 3, days after the coastal Dakshina Kannada district witnessed communal tensions following two murders in Mangaluru. Whereas talking on the temple occasion, the two-time MLA from Belthangady constituency within the district objected to the temple administration inviting Muslim residents of the village to the occasion on the native mosque.
In a speech delivered in Tulu, a language spoken in a number of coastal districts of Karnataka, he claimed that they had damaged tube lights and stolen diesel from mills meant for illumination in the course of the occasion. In a clip of the speech, Poonja is heard saying, “Our greatest mistake is taking everybody collectively in concord. What was the necessity for us to go to the mosque and provides an invite? Because you gave the invitation, they broke the tube lights … We should always not do a balancing act. We’re Hindus and will stay so.”
Following this, a number of complaints had been filed in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Celebration chief at numerous police stations within the Dakshina Kannada district. Poonja was accused of selling enmity between the Hindu and Muslim communities, and authorized motion was sought in opposition to him.
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