Goondas have attacked one of the archakar (priest) of Sri Ulagalandha Perumal Temple in the presumption that he is preventing a car parking project planned on the land that belongs to the temple. The priest who was brutally assaulted posted a video that went viral on social media.
Goondas have attacked archakar of Shri Ulagalamdha Perumal in the doubt that he is preventing Thiruppani. I will report to court tomorrow. Anyone in kanchipuram please contact me and let's help him out. The culprits must be brought to books pic.twitter.com/lrbPEcwOEK
— Rangarajan Narasimhan (@OurTemples) November 10, 2022
The temple priest in the video said, “It is by the grace of Perumal that I am alive today. They were planning to set up an advanced parking area on the land that belongs to Perumal temple. I was beaten by them when I thought of getting a stay order on the project from the court. I am yet to get the stay order. They attacked me even before getting the stay order.”
He added that he was afraid to go to the police because the police were also favorable to the goondas who attacked him.
He went on to say, “They asked why I was getting involved in the parking lot project while they were assaulting me. However, I do not recognize the faces of those who assaulted me.”
Tamil Nadu BJP MLA Vanathi Srinivasan has condemned the attack on a temple priest who was trying to prevent the misuse of temple property and demanded that the perpetrators be punished by the Tamil Nadu government.
கோவில் நிலத்தை தவறாக பயன்படுத்துவதை எதிர்த்ததால் ,
காஞ்சிபுரம் உலகளந்த பெருமாள் கோவில் அர்ச்சகர், சில சமூக விரோதிகளால் தாக்கப்பட்ட சம்பவம் மிகவும் கண்டிக்கத்தக்கது.தமிழக அரசு கடுமையான நடவடிக்கை எடுக்க வேண்டும். @mkstalin @BJP4TamilNadu https://t.co/BZ37G3bWHE
— Vanathi Srinivasan (@VanathiBJP) November 11, 2022
Ulagalandha Perumal Temple is a temple dedicated to Vishnu located in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India. The temple is glorified in the Naalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th through 9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshipped as Ulagalantha Perumal, and his consort Lakshmi as Amuthavalli. The temple is believed to have been built by the Pallavas, with later contributions from the medieval Cholas, Vijayanagara kings, and Madurai Nayaks.
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