Kanchi seer gets rousing reception
Devotees give warm reception to the Kanchi acharya Sri Jayendra Saraswathi upon his arrival to the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt.
Chennai: A large number of ecstatic devotees and followers accorded a warm reception to the Kanchi acharya Sri Jayendra Saraswathi upon his arrival to the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt near here on Saturday.
Following his acquittal in the Sankararaman murder case on November 27, the seer had gone on a pilgrimage to Tiruchendur and Tirupati. He returned to the mutt from Tirupati by car in the wee hours of Saturday. At Sarvatheerthakulam, on the boundary of Kancheepuram district, the officials and staff from the Sri Kamakshi Amman temple, Ekambranathar temple and the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt accorded a poornakumbam honours to the senior pontiff.
Several hundreds of devotees participated in receiving the senior acharya. The joyous reception lasted till the acharya entered the mutt. Though reporters eagerly waited to obtain his reaction on a Puducherry court acquitting him in addition to the junior pontiff Vijayendra Saraswathi and 21 others, they could not manage to get him to speak.
Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who was the first political leader to call on the seers on the mutt premises, described the acquittal as “victory of justice”.
The Jankalyan led by its president K. Nagarajan and several other organisations too joined the multitude in according a warm reception to the Seer.
Meanwhile, the executive committee of the state unit of the BJP, which met under the chairmanship of state president Pon Radhakrishnan has hailed the acquittal of Kanchi seers in the Sankararaman murder case the trial of which ran for nine years.
( Source : dc )
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