“Save Sammed Shikharji” Jain Community from Pune appeals to PM Modi

Pune: NPNEWS24 ONLINE-  Pune’s Jain community and business class hit the road to make a silent march to protest against the government’s decision to make Sammed Shikharji a tourist place. The protest started from Seven love’s square’s Oswal Bandhu Hall. Many youths from the Jain community also participated in the silent march.
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The women from the Jain Community also came in big number to protect their Pilgrimage situated in Jharkhand. The government is turning the Pilgrimage Jain into a tourist station and the Jain community is claiming that this will disturb the peace of that Pilgrimage.

The Jharkhand government wants to make the shrine land of the 20-Tirthankaras of Jain religion (Mokshboomi) i.e. the Sammed Shikharji pilgrimage a tourist spot. Against this, the Sadhus of Jain Samaj, Sadhvi also appealed to the Jharkhand government. They should not make this mountain land a tourist spot and make it disrespectful.

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The Jain community has always encouraged non-violence, after becoming a tourist destination it will create an atmosphere of violence, said the Jain representatives in the silent march.

More than 5000 people of the Jain community were present in this Mega silent march.

Shwetambar, stanikwasi, Digambar and Tharpanthi saints of Pune’s Jain Samaj were involved in this protest. During this time, Param Pujya Acharya Shri Vijay Yugabhushan Suryavarji appealed to the government to grant Sammed Shikharji the status of Hole Place. At the same time, he said that Shikharji Mountain should be worshiped as a place of Pilgrimage and do not develop Shikharji as the tourist destination.

The Silent march ended at the Collector’s office. There, the collector was presented with the memorial by the Jain community’s Acharya Shri Vijay Yugabhushan Shishirji Maharaj.