Harishini / Umesh Marpally
Daijiworld Media Network—Udupi
Udupi, Apr 21: The district Bunt’s Yane Nadavara Sangha organized a press meet on Monday April 21 at Sri Sayi Palace.
Kurkalu Dinakar Shetty, vice-president, Bunt’s Yane Nadavara Sangha, addressed the media and condemned the issue of Vanitha Shetty who had alleged that she was subjected to caste-based discrimination (Pankti Bheda) for having food at Udupi Sri Krishna Math, recently.
He strongly condemned it and said it was a matter of survival of the Hindu religion. “The Bunts have always supported the developmental work of Udupi Math but now they are discriminating against us all the time,” he said.
After the long controversial statements and discussion, he stated, “We are not going to question the rules and traditions of Udupi temple. We are just condemning the situation. If they agree to apologize, if they are promise to stop the repetitive attitude, if they bring reforms in such practices, we will drop the issue. If not, we will take a state-level protest against Pankti Bheda.”
He opined that if Udupi agrees to give up the Pankti Bheda system, automatically other temples are going to follow the same system; it may show equality among the public and devotees.
Uday Shetty, Dinesh Shetty, Shashi Shetty, Nityananda Shetty, Pratap Shetty, Vishwanath Shetty, Gopal Shetty, and Somanath Shetty were all present.