Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday alleged that donations price Rs 18 crore have been being siphoned off yearly at Mumbai’s Siddhivinayak Temple and claimed that Rs 1,400 crore had been stolen on the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.“Yearly, Rs 18 crore was being stolen,” Thackeray stated.Talking at a programme organised by the MNS’s pupil wing on Saturday, Raj Thackeray alleged that staff at Mumbai’s Siddhivinayak Temple had siphoned off donations from the temple’s assortment packing containers.
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Citing a letter purportedly written by eight temple trustees to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, he stated the alleged theft got here to mild as a result of trustees’ vigilance.Thackeray claimed that the temple’s weekly donation assortment was under Rs 50 lakh earlier than the alleged theft was uncovered, however elevated to round Rs 1.5 crore after these concerned have been caught.Sada Sarvankar, chairman of the Siddhivinayak Temple Belief and a pacesetter of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, stated that 9 temple staff had been arrested in reference to the alleged theft.“Now we have filed instances wherever required,” Sarvankar was quoted as saying by PTI.Sarvankar attributed the rise in donations to measures taken by the temple belief, saying its annual earnings had elevated from Rs 114 crore two years in the past to Rs 182 crore.
