Himanshu Kaushik | TNN | May 4, 2018, 21:52 ISTAHMEDABAD: The Gujarat forest department has denied the trust of the Kankai temple — which is located inside Gir National Park — permission to hold a yagna in the sanctuary and erect pandals for a May 6 function that was to be attended by chief minister Vijay Rupani and several BJP ministers.
The office bearers of the trust said that they have informed the
chief minister that as they won’t be able to set up shamianas for his
meeting and do not have permission for a large number of people to enter
the sanctuary along with him, he may cancel his visit for darshan at
the Kankai temple.
The Gujarat forest department on Thursday evening refused the Kankai
temple trust permission to hold the yagna in the sanctuary and erect
pandals.
Environmentalists had opposed the ceremony on the ground that it
would harm wildlife in the sanctuary. Narendra Jani, vice president of
the Kankai temple trust, said, “A meeting was held on Thursday evening
and the officials made it clear that the trust cannot be permitted to
use sanctuary land for their function. We were to install pandals for
the CM’s meeting outside the temple premises, but the forest department
refused us permission. As we failed to get permission, we called up the
chief minister’s office and told him to cancel his visit as the
department had refused permission for the large gathering that would be
there if CM was to visit along with his cabinet ministers.”
Chel Joshi, the trust administrator, said, “This is the first time
that we have been denied permission. In 2015, we had held a similar
programme and were given permission. We have permission to even stay the
night inside the sanctuary, but the department is not letting us do
so.”
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/permission-refused-for-rupanis-programme-at-kankai/articleshow/64033944.cms
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