No temple to be named after Char Dhams, law soon

New Delhi, July 18 The Uttarakhand Cabinet on Thursday decided to bring a law to bar setting up a temple in the name of state’s Char Dhams, including Kedarnath and Badrinath. The decision came amid uproar over CM Pushkar Singh...

Tribune News Service

Updated At : 12:55 PM Jul 19, 2024 IST

New Delhi, July 18

The Uttarakhand Cabinet on Thursday decided to bring a law to bar setting up a temple in the name of state’s Char Dhams, including Kedarnath and Badrinath.

The decision came amid uproar over CM Pushkar Singh Dhami himself laying the stone of a replica of Kedarnath temple in Delhi’s Burari a week ago. Kedarnath temple priests and the Congress objected to the move. With local priests up in arms against Dhami, the BJP would have found it hard to put up a challenge in Kedarnath Assembly bypoll necessitated due to the demise of sitting MLA Shaila Rani. The BJP has just lost the Badrinath bypoll to the Congress.

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