Friday, 13 August 2021 | PNS | New Tehri
The protest by Char Dham Teerth Purohits demanding dissolution of Char Dham Devasthanam Board is continuing unabated at Kedarnath and other places.
Teerth Purohit Santosh Trivedi recently wrote a letter with his blood to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking the dissolution of the board to protect the interests of the Teerth Purohits.
The Dharna has continued near the Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath shrines against Devasthanam board. It may be recalled that since the formation of Devasthanam Board, the Teerth Purohits of the Char Dham shrines of Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath have been opposing the move. They have met the successive chief ministers and other other ministers demanding the dissolution of the board, but instead of dissolving the board, it is being expanded.
It may be mentioned that about two years ago, the Devasthanam Board was constituted under the leadership of the then CM Trivendra Singh Rawat. The management of a total of 51 temples including the Char Dham shrines was brought under the purview of the board. Recently, chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has talked of a high-power committee to be constituted to address the issue. Gangotri temple committee secretary Deepak Semwal said that if the high-power committee does not act on the demands by August 15, the Teerth Purohits will intensify their agitation.
