ISKCON temple in Baikhora attacked by miscreants for forcible occupation, public resistance

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, July 20, 2025

In what appears to be a total negation of ruling BJP’s ideological position, as gang of miscreants supposedly owing allegiance to the ruling party on Friday night invaded the premise of the ISKCON Jagannath Jiu temple located in Baikhoara area under Belonia subdivision. They had taken advantage of the absence from the temple premise of the main priest Karuneshwar Madhav Das and attacked the temple premise to forcibly occupy it . The miscreants had come armed with clubs, rods and matchets and forced the other priests and inmates to leave the temple premise by abusing them and threatening to murder them.

Even though the harmless priests had fled to save their lives the people in the market as well as businessmen rushed to the temple premise and put up a strong resistance against the encroachers. Besides, after being informed , police personnel from Baikhora police station also arrived on the spot and several miscreants managed to run away. Sources from Baikhora said that a gang of miscreants enjoying patronage from the ruling party had been trying to tarnish the image of the temple and its authority including the chief priest Karunshwar Madav Das by spreading canards and by running a campaign of calumny in social media with the purpose of forcibly occupying the temple and its land . The miscreants had also distributed defamatory leaflets against the temple authority.

Sources said that yesterday a case against the miscreants was filed with the Baikhora police station against Krishnadhan Datta, Pratik Roy, Kiran Sarkar, Ranjit Roy and Nidhan Chakraborty . In face of public anger Krishnadhan Datta confessed to police after being rounded up who had done what and why to desecrate the temple . All the miscreants are likely to be arrested soon. Sources said that the people of Baikhora ,aghast by the attack on temple, are waiting to see what stand the RSS and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) take to protect the temple and punish the culprits.

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