The Tumakuru district administration imposed part 144 of the Prison Process Code (CrPC) within the Lingapura village on Tuesday after two devotees teams clashed over who will get to supply prayers on the Panduranga temple first.
In keeping with the police, the Panduranga temple has two temple committees. Whereas one committee was related to Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP), the opposite is affiliated with the Janata Dal (Secular), police mentioned.
“On Sunday, the group related to the JD(S) got here to the temple to supply prayers and take out a procession of the deity’s idol. Nevertheless, the BJP-led group raised objections to this. The BJP-led group insisted they’d provide Pooja and take out the procession first. The conflict broke out after the primary committee objected to it,” police mentioned
Quickly after listening to the information, Hebburu police rushed to the spot and convened a gathering with two teams.
“The assembly continued until 2 am on Sunday, however each teams didn’t budge. The teams weren’t prepared to surrender. Although we tried to unite two teams to have fun the pageant unitedly, they didn’t agree,‘’ Kyatsandra circle inspector Channe Gowda mentioned.
In keeping with the officer, prior to now, the pageant was celebrated by all villagers collectively.
Nevertheless, round three years again, a brand new temple committee led by the JD (S)was shaped, resulting in a rift, the officer mentioned.
“After stress eased, we withdrew the extra police drive deployed within the village, and the scenario is peaceable now,” he mentioned.
Because the state meeting election is nearing, the villagers who recognized with political events are creating commotion and division for political mileage, mentioned villagers. ‘
’In 1968, a villager, Shivanna, donated a chunk of land for the Shani Mahatma temple. Later, there was a dispute over the temple land. Then, villagers took away the idol and stored it in Panduranga Swamy temple. Now, these committees are preventing over the precise over the idol,’’ mentioned Channa Basappa, a villager.
A case between two teams was additionally pending for listening to in Tumakuru court docket, Basappa added.Three yr again each teams filed case in court docket looking for order to nominate them as administration committee of temple.