Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 6: General body meeting of Prem Nath Bhat Memorial Trust, the Nodal organization of Hindus of Kashmir spearheading the Shrine Bill expressed the hopes that the ruling alliance would fulfill its promise of enacting the Shrine Bill and bring it in the coming session of the Legislative Assembly.
The Trust in its meeting here, today said both the ruling parties have assured it that they are committed to enact the Bill for the protection and preservation and accountable management of the temples in Kashmir. Spokesperson of the PNBMT Dr R L Bhat said that the community is waiting for them to fulfill the promise.
The meeting was attended among others by Dr A N Pandita, Dr R L Bhat, and B L Saraf, Principal Session and District Judge (retd), A K Raina, B L Bhat, Shiban Khaibri, Man Mohan Thaploo, M L Ganjo, B L Zar and Kashmiri Lal Bhat . The meeting was told that the Trust was in possession of the original documents of sale deeds and attorneys disposing off the temple properties, executed by different trustees,
It authorized the PNBMT to put all the documents in its possession before public to make them aware of the real situation.
The speakers emphasized that the struggle for transparent and democratic management of the temples and shrines of Kashmir is a united aspiration of the Hindus of Kashmir and that they would not allow individual interests or isolated trusts to sabotage the movement for their personal and vested interests.
The meeting pointed out that nobody is opposed to any Sadhu maharaj or Purohit. The Bill will not displace them or interfere with their worship. However, the temples and shrines must not be treated as the private properties nor sold, mortgaged, or otherwise alienated. The bill is the only way to protect the religious properties against that misuse and to manage them in an open democratic way by an elected Shrine Board composed of all Hindus of Kashmir including Pandits, Dogras, or Punjabi Hindus of Kashmir.
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