Anant Padmanabh's Money

This is in response to discovery of vast treasure in the Anant Padmanabh temple. Many people are saying that the state should control this temple.

I think then you should say the same thing about the temples, gurudwaras, churches and mosques run by other religions also. They are very rich too. The Church is the largest landowner in India after the Indian Govt. Why Golden temple should have so much gold? Why Muslims, Christians etc. get to keep so much money they get from oversees. True, they do some charitable work but it's only for the members of their communities, not for general public. Why only target money of Hindu temples? Hindus give money to the temples out of their good faith, not for the government; it takes enough money out of taxes and should use that money for welfare. If it wants to use Hindu temple funds for welfare, the same should apply to all religions.

The Golden Temple

Under a Temple Empowerment Act, about 43,000 temples in Andhra Pradesh have come under government control and only 18 per cent of the revenues of these temples have been returned for temple purposes, the remaining 82 per cent being used for purposes unstated.

In the world famous Tirumala Tirupati Temple the annual collection is over Rs 3,100 crores and the State Government has not denied the charge that as much as 85 per cent of this is transferred to the State Exchequer, much of which goes to causes that are not connected with the Hindu community.

In Kerala funds from the Guruvayur Temple are diverted to other government projects denying improvement to 45 Hindu temples

In Karanataka, Rs. 79 crores were collected from about two lakh temples and from that, temples received Rs seven crores for their maintenance, Muslim madrassahs and Haj subsidy were given Rs 59 crore and churches about Rs 13 crore.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not secular.

If we are so worried about public welfare, why not ask our cricketers, who have crores, to shed some money. How much money is in IPL?


Tags : Temple, treasure, for God not state