By PTI
JAIPUR: A Jain monk who was on a quick towards the Jharkhand authorities’s resolution to declare Shri Sammed Shikharji as a vacationer place died in Jaipur, a group chief stated on Friday.
Samarth Sagar (74) died at round 2 am on Friday after fasting for 5 days, stated Rajasthan Jain Sabha president Subhash Chandra Jain.
Sagar was on a starvation strike on the Sanghiji temple in Sanganer space right here.
This comes days after one other Jain monk, Sugyeysagar Maharaj (72), fasting to protest the Jharkhand authorities’s resolution died on the temple on Tuesday.
Shri Sammed Shikharji is a Jain pilgrimage centre within the Parasnath hills of Jharkhand.
The state authorities determined to show it right into a vacationer attraction, which irked the group.
The Centre on Thursday stayed all tourism actions on the Parasnath hills and directed the Jharkhand authorities to instantly take all steps obligatory to guard its sanctity.
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JAIPUR: A Jain monk who was on a quick towards the Jharkhand authorities’s resolution to declare Shri Sammed Shikharji as a vacationer place died in Jaipur, a group chief stated on Friday.
Samarth Sagar (74) died at round 2 am on Friday after fasting for 5 days, stated Rajasthan Jain Sabha president Subhash Chandra Jain.
Sagar was on a starvation strike on the Sanghiji temple in Sanganer space right here.
This comes days after one other Jain monk, Sugyeysagar Maharaj (72), fasting to protest the Jharkhand authorities’s resolution died on the temple on Tuesday.
Shri Sammed Shikharji is a Jain pilgrimage centre within the Parasnath hills of Jharkhand.
The state authorities determined to show it right into a vacationer attraction, which irked the group.
The Centre on Thursday stayed all tourism actions on the Parasnath hills and directed the Jharkhand authorities to instantly take all steps obligatory to guard its sanctity.
READ | Jains rally in Gujarat, search motion towards desecration of sacred Shetrunjaya Hills
