NDTV Correspondent - NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
Monday, December 4, 2006
Three days of controversial Datta Jayanti celebrations by the BJP ended without violence on Monday in Karnataka's Chikmagalur district.
Communal violence over the event in the past forced the High Court to impose restrictions. Security was tight in Chikmagalur town and at the communally sensitive Bababudangiri hills, the site of Datta Peeta shrine.
Pilgrims and several hundred BJP supporters made their way to visit the Datta peetha.The cave, which houses the shrine is also the site of a Sufi dargah and a dispute over ownership has led to communal tension.
Muslims revere the place as the site chosen by a Sufi saint for worship but Hindus believe that Dattatreya meditated there.
After 1975, the ownership of the shrine became a matter of dispute and in the 1990s the Sangh Parivar focused its attention on the shrine.
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Controversial celebrations end without violence
Monday, December 4, 2006
Three days of controversial Datta Jayanti celebrations by the BJP ended without violence on Monday in Karnataka's Chikmagalur district.
Communal violence over the event in the past forced the High Court to impose restrictions. Security was tight in Chikmagalur town and at the communally sensitive Bababudangiri hills, the site of Datta Peeta shrine.
Pilgrims and several hundred BJP supporters made their way to visit the Datta peetha.The cave, which houses the shrine is also the site of a Sufi dargah and a dispute over ownership has led to communal tension.
Muslims revere the place as the site chosen by a Sufi saint for worship but Hindus believe that Dattatreya meditated there.
After 1975, the ownership of the shrine became a matter of dispute and in the 1990s the Sangh Parivar focused its attention on the shrine.
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NDTV Correspondent - NDTV.com - New Delhi,IndiaMonday, December 4, 2006
Three days of controversial Datta Jayanti celebrations by the BJP ended without violence on Monday in Karnataka's Chikmagalur district.
Communal violence over the event in the past forced the High Court to impose restrictions. Security was tight in Chikmagalur town and at the communally sensitive Bababudangiri hills, the site of Datta Peeta shrine.
Pilgrims and several hundred BJP supporters made their way to visit the Datta peetha.The cave, which houses the shrine is also the site of a Sufi dargah and a dispute over ownership has led to communal tension.
Muslims revere the place as the site chosen by a Sufi saint for worship but Hindus believe that Dattatreya meditated there.
After 1975, the ownership of the shrine became a matter of dispute and in the 1990s the Sangh Parivar focused its attention on the shrine.
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