Eastern Governor’s wife interferes in temple issue
By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan
A Hindu temple, located in Muttur, Trincomalee is at the centre of a controversy and Police have ordered devotees living in the villages of the area to refrain from carrying out any reconstruction work until the Department of Archaeology investigates to see whether an ancient Buddhist temple had existed on the site.
This follows rival claims were made by Buddhists as well as Hindus to this site in Sampur,......which in turn led to a shouting match between local worshippers and outsiders, including Deepti Bogollagama, wife of the Eastern Province Governor.
The controversy erupted after two Buddhist Monks visited the site on 19 December and laid claim to it. This was shortly after the local Hindu worshippers had cleared the site using bulldozers.
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