After VHP’s fierce objection, Karnataka govt withdraws determination to pay Imams from Hindu temple funds

After the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Dakshina Kannada opposed the Karnataka authorities’s transfer to pay allowances as Covid reduction to Imams of 41 Mosques and Madrasas from the funds of the Hindu non secular endowment division, the state authorities has put its determination on maintain.
A reduction bundle of Rs 3,000 every to imams and muezzins together with the temple monks serving within the ‘C’ class of temples beneath the Muzrai (Hindu non secular endowment division) division was introduced not too long ago by the Karnataka authorities. 
ಹಿಂದೂ ಧಾರ್ಮಿಕ ದತ್ತಿ ಇಲಾಖೆಯಿಂದ ಮಸೀದಿಯ ಮೌಲ್ವಿಗಳಿಗೆ ತಸ್ತಿಕ್ ಬಿಡುಗಡೆ! Tastik/Monthly Salary for Masjid Maulvis is launched from Hindu Endowments Department in Karnataka!Governments change, Appeasement continues! Temple Money is used to pay Salaries of Maulvis. pic.twitter.com/8dnCPCfqkf— Girish Bharadwaj (@Girishvhp) June 9, 2021
Taking objection to temple funds being allotted elsewhere, the VHP in a memorandum submitted to state Muzrai Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary acknowledged, “The money received from Hindu temples should be utilized for the temples and the welfare of the Hindu community.”
Muzrai Minister Poojary later assured the leaders that the choice will probably be withdrawn. Issuing an official assertion, Poojary knowledgeable, “After the requests received from various Hindu organizations, I have instructed the officials to hold all the packages to other religious institutions immediately from the Religious Endowment department.”
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“A total of 764 other religious institutions in the state were provided financial assistance by the Hindu Religious Endowment department; the package to these institutions will be put on hold,” he added, as per an Indian Express report.
“Bring mosques and madrasas under the Karnataka Wakf Board to allocate relief funds”
Speaking to Indian Express, VHP divisional secretary Sharan Pumpwell stated that extra provisions have to be made by the federal government in the event that they want to allocate reduction funds and allowances. 
The #VishwaHinduParishad in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district opposed the federal government’s determination to pay allowances to Imams of Mosques and Madrasas within the district as #Covid lockdown compensation from the funds of the Hindu non secular endowment division. @IndianExpress pic.twitter.com/YH2fCG34xj— Darshan Devaiah B P (@DarshanDevaiahB) June 9, 2021
The VHP divisional secretary steered that if the federal government needs to pay Muslim clerics, it ought to convey the mosques and madarsas of the Wakf Board beneath its personal management and utilise their funds to profit Imams.
Pumpwell knowledgeable, “Through Hindu Religious Endowment department, the government is providing the relief package to more than 150 mosques and their imams.”