Chief priest of Pashupatinath temple has decided to come back to India with his four colleagues.
He said on Sunday that he was ready to return to India rather than face humiliation. Before this, Maoists attacked two Indian priests there.
Chief priest Mahabaleshwor Bairy said, “The newly appointed Indian priests are not refugees taking shelter at the temple, we have brought them from Karnataka, after fulfilling all the criteria and following due process as per the Act and following centuries old tradition.”
In the mean time, Nepal’s Minister for Culture Minendra Rijal said, “The temple’s accounts were also made transparent and they (the priests) are ready to cooperate in the matter.”
“The priests told the government that if Nepalese did not want Indian priests at the holy shrine, he and the four other Indian priests appointed there were ready to return home rather than being insulted,” Rijal added.
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