Shravan Shuddha Chaturthi
Press Release
Recently the government of Andhra Pradesh has sold 5 acres of land in Nellore in spite of our protests and demand to stop the auction. There is no law and order, no morals, no principles, overly zealous to destroy Hindu culture by selling the lands and diverting the Temples. Deception is rampant. Trickery is widespread. Honesty is gone. We have to make people aware of all these practices so that they will be equipped with the government’s anti-Hindu stance. Hopefully they will exercise their voting rights so that they will elect people who treat all religions equally without giving preference to one religion over others. Equal treatment should be law of the land.
Also AP government has issued a GO setting aside 2 crores of rupees for Christians to go Jerusalem Bethelham etc. using government money. Where do this money come from? It comes from the Temple money since all the Hindu Temples are required to pay 18-21 percent of their revenues to the State government. This money is in turn used to subsidize Christians pilgrimage and Hajj travel arrangements.
Hindus should wake up to the reality. What is the reality? Reality is that the both Central government and State governments are anti Hindus and try any means to destroy it. How can they do it? Because Hindus are so indifferent, so apathetic, so unconcerned about their religion, they refuse to read, refuse to listen, refuse to accept, refuse to exercise their voting right, refuse to unite as one group. We are in deep slumber. By the time we wake up, we may be in chains dragged and forced the way like our fore fathers who were forced, killed for ten centuries of Islamic rule in India. Hindus have to learn their lessons. They have to make conscious effort to learn as to what happened to their fore fathers, how may of them were killed, how many of them were forced to convert, how many women were raped, how many murthies were broken, and how many Temples were damaged, destroyed, and leveled to the ground.
It is happening now. But Hindus do not see it. They turn their eyes away from their religion which is being maligned. They do not take active part to defend their religion, they do not express their anger, and they do not support any efforts to defend it.
You and your children may not enjoy the freedom you are enjoying today, if you allow your religion to attacked, hacked, mutilated by external forces and other religions who bent on establishing the supremacy of their religion.
What are we (Global Hindu Heritage Foundation and Hindu Devalaya Parirakshana Samithi) doing about these issues? We are consulting and taking up these issues with our lawyers to challenge the and get stay order.
SEND E-MAILS:
In the mean while, please send your emails to Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh ab0ut:
- Selling of Temple lands and diversion of Temple funds
- The GO granting subsidy to Christians to go to Jerusalem, Bethelham and other places.
The email address is : [email protected]
Maha Pada Yatra – August thru February 2009
Shri. Kamal Kumar Swami and his entourage will cover more than 4000 kilometers, walk trough nearly 1000 villages, visit nearly 1000 Temples, and involve lakhs of people in the Pada Yatra movement.
Maha Pada Yatra will be conducted for nearly 6 months staring in August 2008 thru February 2009. It will start in Srikakulam district and conclude in Tirupathi. Before the start of Maha Pada Yatra, the Team will go to Tirupathi to seek Sri Balaji’s blessings and also visit 15 nearby Temples to update the planned Pada Yatra 2 and update the progress of the movement to free the Temples from government control and to demand the scrap of Hindu Endowment Act.
COST
Cost of the Pada Yatra for six months touring nearly half of Andhra Pradesh will be around $100,000. We will give the breakdown soon. As a first step, we are planning to acquire 9 seat capacity Jeep which can be converted to Radha Yatra vehicle. Need help.
Donations
Your generous donations to complete the Maha Pada Yatra are essential. We are requesting all the individuals and organizations to support financially to continue our movement to free Hindu Temples from the government control.
Please send your donation to:
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation, 548 Silverstone Drive, Madison MS 39110
For more information: http://savetemples.org
Contact: V. V. Prakasa Rao, PhD, 601-918-7111 (cell), 601-856-4783 (home) / Prasad Yalamanchi, 630-832-2665; 630-359-5041 / D. Satya 732-939-2060 / Vinay 248-842-6964 /Srinivas Murthy 212-538-8716 / Dr. K. R. Venkatramaiah (Canada) 416-925-8167. Nemana Satya 732-762-7104
