Kanchi seer gets rousing reception

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.