[Assam] Army help to Sattras -AT Letter

[Ram Sarangapani]

The army helping Sattras? This is one news I didn't expect, given the often
bad stuff we keep hearing about it.
Maybe times are a changin.

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*Army help to Sattras
* Sir,– The recent appeal of the Asom Sattra Mahasabha to the Army to remove
the encroachers from the Sattras of Asom is quite timely and as such a
rightful step. It is unfortunate that sites of the Sattras being the sacred
centres of Vaishnavite religion and culture have now been occupied illegally
by some people.

The Kobaikata Sattra in Nagaon and the Patekibori Sattra in Morigaon
district are almost occupied and surrounded by doubtful foreigners but the
government has been the passive on-looker without any step to evict the
encroachers. If the government remains silent the Army should take action to
evict the encroachers from the Sattras of Asom in the greater interest of
protecting and preserving the great ancient heritage of the Vaishnavite
religion propounded by Mahapurush Sri Sri Sankardeva and Madhabdeva. – Yours
etc., MD. IDRISH ALI, Baligaon, Morigaon.
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