Malayalam writer K.P. Ramanunni and Swami Dharma Chaithanya of the Sivagiri Madhom will join a repentance S hayana Pradakshinam (prostration) at the Kadalayi Sree Krrshna temple at Chirakkal here on June 7. The Kerala Samskritha Sangham (KSS) is organising the programme.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Monday, Mr. Ramanunni and Swami Dharma Chaithanya said the Shayana Pradakshinam was being organised as an atonement by Hindu believers for the brutal child rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl inside a ‘devasthan’ (prayer hall) at Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir. They called on believers in Hinduism to join the programme to express repentance for the ‘kidnap, rape and murder’ of the Muslim girl inside the prayer hall. Keeping their religious ideas uncorrupted and protecting the purity of their places of worship were matters of life and death for each Hindu, they added.
Gandhian way
Mr. Ramanunni said poet K. Satchidanandan and writer B. Rajeevan have conveyed their moral support for the programme. Both had stated that they viewed the repentance programme not as a political protest but as a Gandhian purification ritual that could be performed by Hindu believers.
KSS district coordinator Satheeshan Thillankery was also present.
