Idol desecration incidents at Goa, thousands gather for protest!

Idol desecration incident at Goa, One thousand locals present at a public meet (8 Nov 2008)
5 deities’s idols desecrated at Sree Sateri temple in Goa ( 7 Nov 2008)

Idol desecration incident at Goa, One thousand locals present at a public meet

Enough with constitutional means, time for direct action – Decision of infuriated Dabhal locals at a public meet

Kodli-Tisk (Goa): ‘There have been several incidents of idol desecration. Such incidents will not be done with henceforth. No more protests by constitutional means and no more lectures are required in this regard. What is required now is direct action against idol desecration!’ expressed angry locals at a public meet held at Dabhal this evening. The said public meet had been organised to decide the future course of action of the agitation against idol desecration incidents in the wake of the desecration of idols at Sree Sateri Temple, Kalsai, Dabhal on November 7th. The said meet was attended by the state-level co-ordinators of the Akhil Goa Mandir Suraksha Samiti (AGMSS) apart from the locals. One thousand locals were present at the said public meeting out of which 500 were women.

At this time, dignitaries present on the stage were Dabhal Panchayat’s Sarpanch Shri. Rama Gaonkar, members of the Sanvordem Zilla Parishad, AGMSS’ state co-ordinators viz. Shri. Vinayak Chari, Shri. Rajendra Velingkar and Shri. Jayesh Thali, Padmanabh Sect’s treasurer Shri. Sudesh Naik, Bajrang Dal’s South Goa office bearer Shri. Jayesh Naik, Shivsena’s Shri. Namdev, etc.

Locals decide to stage a ‘dharna’ agitation at the Lohia Maidan, Margao on November 15th

A decision to stage a ‘dharna’ agitation to demand for the immediate arrest of the iconoclasts (idol desecrators) was made at the said meet. This ‘dharna’ agitation will be staged at the Lohia Maidan on 15th November at 4 pm. This was proposed by Shri. Rajendra Velingkar, state co-ordinator of the AGMSS.

Source: Daily Sanatan Prabhat

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Police on patrol in the temple premises fail to nab the culprits; angry locals protest by blocking the Sanvordem-Dharbandora road

Goa: Some iconoclasts desecrated two idols of Sree Rakhandev deity situated in Sree Sateri temple and three idols situated nearby in three small temples in the Kalsai-Dabhal region of Sanguem taluka at 2 am past midnight on 7th November. The important feature of this incident is that the police patrolling the temple premises could not nab the culprits inspite of realising that something was fishy due to the alertness of the latter. The local residents agitated by blocking the Sanvordem-Dharbandora road in order to prevent the culprits from fleeing from the village and to protest against the inefficiency of the police.

Source: Daily Sanatan Prabhat

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