Beware Of the Entry Drama

Jaipur: Almost three years after the attempts by Harijans to enter the Vaishnava temple at Nathdwara, near Udaipur another mass temple entry for Harijans is planned in the State capital’s Govind Deoji temple this month-end. The latest attempt, after several of such kind spearheaded by the Arya Samaj leader, Swami Agnivesh, in Rajasthan, is sponsored by the Simata Manch, a recently-formed outfit of socialists in Rajasthan. According to Pandit Ramki Shen, MLA and socialist leader, one of the organisers of the programme, the idea to sponsor yet another Harijan entry was to disprove the claim of the BJP as a Hindu party. (Hindu Jan. 5).