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            Nov 21, 2004 12:35 IST  
In keeping with its nationwide programme, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Orissa unit Saturday launched a protest against the arrest of Hindu pontiff Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi.

 In keeping with its nationwide programme, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Orissa unit Saturday launched a protest against the arrest of Hindu pontiff Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi.

At the same time, its dominant ruling partner Biju Janata Dal (BJD) kept a distance from the affair, refusing to be drawn into the politics of religion.

Led by BJP’s Orissa chief Jual Oram, thousands of party activists including two cabinet ministers of the Orissa government demonstrated in front of Raj Bhavan, the governor’s residence in the state capital.

It is a deliberate attempt of the Congress-led central government to humiliate Hindus, Oram told IANS.

I am participating in the protest not as a minister but a common Hindu, said Samir Dey, the Orissa higher education minister. We want Shankaracharya Nischalananda Saraswati of Puri to lead the protest across the country.
 
As the BJP observed its protests, the BJD, which heads the coalition government, expressed differing views.

Being a secular party, the BJD does not believe in using religion for political purposes, said Damodar Rout, a BJD leader. The law should take its own course.

Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi, head of the revered Kanchipuram mutt or monastic order, was arrested for alleged involvement in the murder of a former official of the monastery.

A court Friday remanded him in three days custody of police to facilitate his intensive questioning

The Shankaracharya of the Puri mutt has rallied around the Kanchipuram pontiff.

--Indo-Asian News Service
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