<p>Chitradurga (Karnataka): Ishwarananda Puri Swamiji, the pontiff of Kanaka Guru Peetha of shepherd Kuruba community has alleged that the authorities cleaned the state-controlled Vishnu temple after he visited it during 'Vaikuntha Ekadashi' in December 2023.</p>.<p>Speaking at a Kannada Literary Conference at Sanehalli Math in Hosadurga on Friday night, the pontiff alleged that there was caste-based discrimination against him at the Channakeshava temple at Bagur in Chitradurga district.</p>.<p>Kurubas are from the shepherd community, which Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also belongs to.</p>.<p>"There's a Channakeshava temple at Bagur near here (Hosadurga). I came to know that they (temple authorities) cleaned the entire temple after I left it," the pontiff said during a conference of his community.</p>.Lord Shiva temple desecrated in MP's Bamori town; people stage protest.<p>According to Swamiji, he went with Shantaveera Swamiji of Kunchitiga Math in Hosadurga.</p>.<p>Ishwarananda Puri further said he would have protested like 16th century AD saint-poet Kanakadasa, who too was prevented from entering Udupi Math.</p>.<p>"I would have protested had if I knew the temple came under the state Hindu religious endowment department," the pontiff said.</p>.<p> According to him, women from the priest's family were allowed inside the temple, while he was kept waiting outside despite the fact that he too was a pontiff of a Hindu monastery.</p>.<p>The Swami quipped that he has decided to go to all the temples as it helps cleaning all the shrines.</p>.<p>However, he told the gathering that henceforth he would not visit the Channakeshava temple at Bagur in future.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the priest of Channakeshava temple Srinivas told reporters in Bagur that no such incident took place as the pontiff has been visiting it every year.</p>
<p>Chitradurga (Karnataka): Ishwarananda Puri Swamiji, the pontiff of Kanaka Guru Peetha of shepherd Kuruba community has alleged that the authorities cleaned the state-controlled Vishnu temple after he visited it during 'Vaikuntha Ekadashi' in December 2023.</p>.<p>Speaking at a Kannada Literary Conference at Sanehalli Math in Hosadurga on Friday night, the pontiff alleged that there was caste-based discrimination against him at the Channakeshava temple at Bagur in Chitradurga district.</p>.<p>Kurubas are from the shepherd community, which Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also belongs to.</p>.<p>"There's a Channakeshava temple at Bagur near here (Hosadurga). I came to know that they (temple authorities) cleaned the entire temple after I left it," the pontiff said during a conference of his community.</p>.Lord Shiva temple desecrated in MP's Bamori town; people stage protest.<p>According to Swamiji, he went with Shantaveera Swamiji of Kunchitiga Math in Hosadurga.</p>.<p>Ishwarananda Puri further said he would have protested like 16th century AD saint-poet Kanakadasa, who too was prevented from entering Udupi Math.</p>.<p>"I would have protested had if I knew the temple came under the state Hindu religious endowment department," the pontiff said.</p>.<p> According to him, women from the priest's family were allowed inside the temple, while he was kept waiting outside despite the fact that he too was a pontiff of a Hindu monastery.</p>.<p>The Swami quipped that he has decided to go to all the temples as it helps cleaning all the shrines.</p>.<p>However, he told the gathering that henceforth he would not visit the Channakeshava temple at Bagur in future.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the priest of Channakeshava temple Srinivas told reporters in Bagur that no such incident took place as the pontiff has been visiting it every year.</p>