Varanasi, August 19 (HS). On the last Monday evening of the month of Sawan, Baba's swing will be decorated with the temple trust's own movable idol in Shri Kashi Vishwanath temple. The Panchbadan silver movable idol that comes from the residence of the former Mahant family of the temple to the temple premises will not be brought to the sanctum sanctorum. Congress has directly attacked the BJP government on this decision of the temple trust.
On Monday, local Congress president Raghavendra Chaubey alleged that at the behest of the government, the temple trust administration has stopped the 358-year-old tradition of Shri Kashi Vishwanath temple, which is wrong. The Panchbadan moving silver idol that has been going from the Mahant residence to the temple premises for years will not go for the swing decoration this time.
After the demise of the former Mahant of the temple, Dr. Kulpati Tiwari, the fourth generation of the family will not be able to carry on the tradition. This will be the first time in the years-old history of the temple that the idol included in the Jhoolanotsav at the Mahant residence will not be placed in the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. Raghavendra Choubey said that the BJP is against Sanatan. It is bent upon destroying the civilization, culture and Banaras of Kashi. Kashi is a mythological city and the old tradition here complements the importance of Kashi. The BJP is continuously destroying this old tradition. The BJP, which does politics in the name of religion, is the real anti-Sanatan.