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Belagavi priest who fixed time for Ram Mandir Bhumi Pujan gets threat calls

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Belagavi: The priest who fixed the auspicious time for conduting the ‘Bhumi Pujan’ ceremony for the new Ram Temple, in Ayodhya has reportedly been receiving threat calls.

Priest NR Vijayendra Sharma, 75 hailing from Belagavi is the man who fixed August 5 as the date for the historic event.

It has now been learnt that he has been receiving threat calls, following which security has been stepped up at his residence in Belagavi.

A case has been filed in the Tilakwadi police station in Belagavi.

Sharma, popularly known as ‘Pandit Sharma’ is the Kulpati of Vidya Vihar Vidyalaya in Belgavi and is attached to Raghavendra Swami Navvrindavan Ashram near Jakkinhond.

He was contacted by the Ram Mandir Trust Committee in Ayodhya to give suitable dates for the Bhumi Puja.

Vijayendra told reporters that one caller asked him why he had set the date for the ‘bhumi pujan’. “He said ‘Why are you joining it?’ I said that the organisers had requested me to give a date for ‘bhumi pujan’ and I did as asked. The caller did not reveal his name. The calls are coming from different numbers.”

Vijayendra has been associated with the Ram temple movement for the last many years. In February this year, he was asked by the Trust to calculate and convey the time suitable for the launch of the temple construction work.

On August 5, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will place a silver brick weighing 22.6 kg to mark the foundation of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

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