{"id":112189,"date":"2013-10-29T17:18:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T11:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=112189"},"modified":"2013-11-03T05:38:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T00:08:52","slug":"30-year-old-dambulla-badhrakaali-amman-kovil-completely-demolished-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/30-year-old-dambulla-badhrakaali-amman-kovil-completely-demolished-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Year Old Dambulla Badhrakaali Amman Kovil Completely Demolished Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dambulla Badhrakaali Amman Kovil has been completely demolished last night raises question about the safety of Badhra kaali amman temples in the southern Sri Lanka, says Dr.N Kumar Guruparan,Western Provincial Councillor and\u00a0the\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: left;\">Deputy Leader of <\/span><span style=\"text-align: left;\">Democratic Peoples\u2019 Front and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-align: left;\">Spokesman for the Hindu Front.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_111505\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/dambulla-kovil-attacked-hindu-politico-says-mosques-and-kovils-must-not-be-shifted\/bhadrakali-mata-statue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111505\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111505\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111505\" title=\"Bhadrakali Mata Statue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bhadrakali-Mata-Statue-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bhadrakali-Mata-Statue-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Bhadrakali-Mata-Statue.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bhadrakali Mata Statue \/File photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Issuing a statement he says; &#8220;It&#8217;s with deep shock &amp; sorrow I record here that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Dambulla&amp;x=13&amp;y=6\">Dambulla<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Badhrakaali Amman Kovil (Temple) has been demolished yesterday\u00a0 razed to the grounds ,which raises question about the safety of Bathra kaali amman temples in the southern Sri Lanka. I was shocked to hear when my good friend Hon Parliamentarian R .Yogarajan conveyed the sad news.We both in our own individual\u00a0 capacity appealed to His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa him to act immediately to stop a 30 year old kovil in Dambulla being shifted.<\/p>\n<p>We both in our individual capacity\u00a0 appealed to His Excellency for the safety of this temple right from the beginning\u00a0 of a buddhists&#8217; chauvnistic\u00a0 group started attack on this temple and moors mosque in the city of Dambulle, Dr.N Kumar Guruparan said.<\/p>\n<p>He said; &#8220;It&#8217;s only a couple of days back <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/dambulla-kovil-attacked-hindu-politico-says-mosques-and-kovils-must-not-be-shifted\/\">I appealed to the President<\/a><\/span>,through English media and Hon Yogarajan took up this matter to the notice of the Preident &#8216;that President need to take steps to safeguard the Badhrakaali Amman Kovil\u00a0 in Dambulla. If things are going out of hands in spite of our appeal are we to find alternatives to appeal and bring pressure hence bring this to the notice of the High Commission of India now after the complete demolition by the civvies forces.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunate is that according to the trustee &#8216;Lechhumi ammah&#8217; it was government forces went along in civvies with the well known <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Inamaluwe+Sumangala+&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\">Buddhist monk<\/a><\/span> requested them to remove the temple from the historically in habited tamil area imediately\u00a0 if not to face the consequences but trustees requested time till Wednesday for the religious rites to take place to close down the temple. without waiting they have demolished.Now fores have embarked on building\u00a0 a fountain ammah&#8217;s relation told\u00a0 me\u00a0 in the evening now; Satue the deity is lying in\u00a0 the trustees residence. There is a group of Buddhist fundamentalists eager to change the history of tamils and Hindus\u2019 and Muslims\u2019 in Dambulla to bring down the\u00a0 prominent life pan of history demolishing the temple and Mosque in prominent palace.This issue and deliberate attack on Badrakaali amman temple\u00a0 is still continuing, the deity\u2019s statue was smashed and thrown in to the well not even a month back. Guruparan said the trident in the premises had been used to remove the roofing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":111505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>30 Year Old Dambulla Badhrakaali Amman Kovil Completely Demolished Last Night - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/30-year-old-dambulla-badhrakaali-amman-kovil-completely-demolished-last-night\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"30 Year Old Dambulla Badhrakaali Amman Kovil Completely Demolished Last Night - 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