Outstanding seer Jayamrutyunjaya Swami was sacked as head of the Kudalasangama Peeta on Sunday.
The Peeta is the apex non secular mutt of Panchamasalis – a sub-sect of Veerashaiva-Lingayats – and is situated at Kudala Sangama, Bagalkot district. The choice to sack Jayamrutyunjaya Swami was introduced by Vijayanand Kashappanavar, Congress MLA and president of Akhila Bharat Lingayat Panchamasali Samaj Belief, following a gathering of the workplace bearers of the Belief.
Members of the Belief had been against the announcement by the seer on Saturday that Panchamasalis ought to enter their faith as ‘Hindu’, as towards calls made by the Belief that they need to classify themselves beneath the ‘Others’ class throughout the Socio-Financial and Schooling Survey beginning Monday. “We live on the idea of Basava philosophy. However the seer is propagating Sanatan ideology,” Kashappanavar stated.
Other than this, there have been a number of different severe allegations towards the seer because of which the Belief determined to expel him as head of the Peeta, Kashappanavar informed reporters following the assembly. One other seer shall be appointed to switch him within the coming days, he added.
Itemizing our group beneath the Hindu faith shall be a hindrance to securing reservations beneath the 2A class, the MLA stated. It may be recalled that the seer had spearheaded the marketing campaign looking for 2A reservation for the group for the previous 5 years.
Members of the Belief had additionally raised complaints that the seer had enriched himself through the years.
There are variations amongst numerous sects of the Veerashaiva-Lingayat group over how the group ought to be labeled within the Survey.
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Disagreements over the difficulty amongst group leaders had come to the fore throughout a gathering held on Thursday. Whereas a gaggle of leaders representing the Akhila Bharatha Veerashaiva Mahasabha had requested group members to be labeled beneath the ‘Others’ class, BJP leaders had maintained that Veerashaiva Lingayats had been Hindus and will classify themselves as members of the faith.