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Patna, (Bihar Times): After the protest by the
Buddhists of Bodh Gaya over the state government
advertisement showing ‘disrespect’ to Gautam Buddha it
is now the Jains turn to express their strong
displeasure.
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The secretary of the Patna Jain Sangh, Pradip Jain, in
a letter to the chief minister, Nitish Kumar,
complained that though the public relation department
of the state government, in its advertisement, showed
Bodh Gaya and Patna Saheb Gurdwara it totally ignored
Pawapuri or any other Jain shrine notiwithstanding the
fact that Jainism had its origin in the state.
Apart from that the Pawapuri Jal Mandir was not
included in President Pratibha Patil’s itinerary,
though last time when the then President Dr A P J
Abdul Kalam was in Bihar he visited this temple. This
notwithstanding the fact that President Patil visited
Nalanda and Rajgir in the vicinity of Pawapuri and
Bodh Gaya and Vaishali––all places related to
Buddhism––in her two-day visit to the state.
Pradip Jain urged the chief minister to give equal
importance to the Jain places of historical and
religious importance during the visit of the VIPs and
in state government advertisement.
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