Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy Parshottam Rupala on Sunday said that the ongoing controversy surrounding the Salangpur Hanuman Temple was “unfortunate”.
Rupala, who was in Vadodara to inaugurate a branch of the Shree Bagasara Nagarik Sharafi Sahakari Mandali Limited, was answering a question on the ongoing controversy of murals in the Sarangpur Temple. “The controversy that is happening is unfortunate. It should not have happened,” Rupala said.
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This comes after a man vandalised a few murals depicting Lord Hanuman sitting at the feet of Lord Swaminarayan on the walls of the pedestal of a giant statue of Hanuman at Shree Kashtabhanjandev Hanumanji Mandir in Botad district’s Shalangpur on Saturday. The incident took place amid calls by Hindu religious leaders and devotees for the removal of such murals.
At the event, Rupala also said that with a goal of setting up two lakh cooperatives in the country in the days to come, the Ministry of Cooperatives was also looking at making rural cooperatives multi-faceted.
“At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a Ministry for Cooperatives and given a direction to growth of cooperatives in India, it is an important step to ensure that the cooperatives function in a multifaceted manner.”
