out of the Padmanabhaswamy temple managing committee by the Supreme court (after the amicus curiae appointed by it - Shri Vinod Rai - reported unmistakable evidences of their involvement in long running acts of theft from the temple wealth), the so called *royal family* of Travancore held a tight control over all affairs of the temple.
They, led by the now deceased *Maharajah* Marthanda Varma, had been holding a vice like grip over the famed temple wealth (reported to be valued at over Rs 1 lakh crore) and would not let go even after the Supreme court admonished it for preventing the ushering in of transparency in the temple accounts.
Shri Vinod Rai had graphically described whatever he saw inside the vaults when they were opened. The deceased *Maharajah* as well as his immediate predecessors had been systematically looting from the hoard with the connivance of a few other temple committee members.
No wonder the so called royals (actually shixt eating pixgs who spent most of their time eating, drinking and copulating while resting on the labours of the working classes) of yore were so closely associated with religion and religious affairs and presided over them without exception !
Like foolish and ignorant voters of today who are easily misled by thieving politicians, gullible commoners were easily misled in the days of yore by the rajahs and ranis and nawabs and sultans who used religion and religious emotions to pillage and lead lives of luxury!
Re: Until they were booted
by logical indian on Sep 19, 2017 09:20 PM
Does the money which go to mosque or church go to supreme Court or govt? Then why this?
Re: Re: Until they were booted
by piri on Sep 20, 2017 01:05 AM
I am not sure of where the money in mosques and churches go.
But, if the employees in those places (i.e., if they have employees) wish to be employed by the govt rather than by private persons/groups as the employees of hundreds of temples demanded immediately after independence, the churches and mosques too are to be controlled by the govt !
And remember, out of the 15000 odd temples in Kerala, less than 3000 are controlled by the government !
More than 12000 are managed by private families and/or temple trusts.
And the employees (including the shantis) in many of these privately held temples raise demands periodically that their temples too ought to be shifted to govt controlled !
And this is not surprising at all !
While the shantis and other employees in the Devaswom board controlled temples get government salaries, D.A, welfare allowances, increments and pensions, those in the privately held temples get pittances as wages by comparison !
And it is not just the employees who wish that temples be run by the govt !
There have been demands from several groups of devotees of various temples that their temples should also be taken away from the extremely corrupt control of private families and trusts and placed under the control of the Devaswoms !
While the Devaswoms have been accused of corruption in the management of temple wealth, this is nothing compared to the huge levels of corruption in the private temples !
Re: Re: Re: Until they were booted
by piri on Sep 20, 2017 01:08 AM
by the office of the State AG and their audited accounts are published annually on their websites. No such checks or balances for private temples at all ! No wonder devotees too often want the temples to be passed to Devaswom control !
Re: Re: Re: Re: Until they were booted
by logical indian on Sep 20, 2017 07:30 AM
All these are valid for churches and mosques too. Issue is that while churches uses money for conversion, mosque uses it for other purposes which you know. These can be stopped completely if you take over. Also if we are supposed to be secular we do the same with all religions organization otherwise secular is just sickular that is all. How come with all these differences we call ourselves secular and cpim and Congress are supposed to be flag bearer of secularism!
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Until they were booted
by logical indian on Sep 20, 2017 03:23 PM
So you mean kerala hindus are f00ls at the hands of the politicians? I also think so..that is why we are voting BJP..Got the idea?-:)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Until they were booted
by piri on Sep 20, 2017 04:10 PM
No, I mean you are a fool to think that the shantikarans and other employees in the Devaswom board controlled temples should have opted to settle for the pittances paid by the corrupt private temple trusts instead of demanding govt control because the employees in churches and mosques (do they have full time employees like temples?) did not place such a demand !!
I mean you are a fool to think that the devotees of temples should not have asked for govt control to stop looting by families/trusts because the devotees in churches and mosques did not place a demand for govt control !
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Until they were booted
by piri on Sep 20, 2017 09:46 AM
The demand for govt control of some temples came from the hyndus themselves (devotees and employees). They agitated long for that immediately after independence when the erstwhile princely state of Travancore was integrated with the Indian union (there is another very interesting piece of history associated with that integration; about how the Raja of Travancore and his ambitious divan - Sir C P Ramaswamy Iyer - tried hard to keep Travancore an independent country and about who actually forced them to run away and abandon that effort) !
It was only because of the prolonged agitation of hyndus themselves that the Devaswom boards were constituted under the control of the govt. It was not because non hyndus demanded it !
Similarly, if other religious places are to be passed to govt control, the demand must ideally come from those religionists themselves, not from the RSS !
Re: Until they were booted
by logical indian on Sep 19, 2017 09:21 PM
Even why devaswom headed by politicians? Then mosque and churches money also should go there to be fair
Re: TO THE TEMPLE COMMITTEE MEMBERS...
by Krishna Bhat on Sep 19, 2017 12:09 PM
I suppose you do know that temples in Kerala are managed by the govt? And guess who is in the govt?
