Puri Shankaracharya downplays Maoists threat

Puri Shankaracharya downplays Maoists threat
By Golak Chandra Das

BHUBANESWAR: Jagadaguru Swami Nischalananda Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Puri Gobardhan Peetha on Wednesday downplayed the threat of CPI (Maoists), which warned the Seer with dire consequence. The outfit in a threat letter, that sent to the Gobardhan Pitha in Puri has alleged that the Hindu Seer has been spreading communal feelings and dividing society on religious lines.

Speaking at a Press Conference here, the Shankaracharya however indirectly attacking on Church said, "I am not worried by the threat call issued by an outfit. I see some others behind the nexus than the CPI (Maoists),"

He apprehended that some International forces have been working overtime to eliminate Hindus and destroy their age-old culture to register their dominancy in the country.

The Seer charged that Congress led UPA Government at Centre is being patronizing anti-Hindu elements in the country. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi have been making all out effort to appease the minorities, he lambasted. Minority appeasement is the root cause of all existing problem in the country, he argued.

"Majority Hindus are feeling prosecuted in a country like India," he added. For vote bank politics, they could go to any extent; the Seer charged referring to large-scale conversion from Hinduism to Christianity.

Asked about, the Seer replied ' I am not fear for my life but I am worry for the survival of Hindu society and its culture. I am not demanding adequate security for my protection," The Shankaracharya however supported a Bandh call given by the Sangh Pariwar slated for December 25. Gobardhan Peetha is one of the four important mutts of Hindu faith in the country founded by Adi Sankaracharya.