A peace meeting has been convened by the tahsildar of Mandya taluk on Thursday to resolve the row over entry of devotees to Sri Beereshwara Swamy Temple in Cheeranahalli village in the district.
The peace meeting has been convened in the wake of a fresh controversy that had broken in the village after the priest of the temple placed a table across the main entrance creating hurdles for the devotees allegedly to deny entry into the temple to Dalits.
Though complaints about the denial of entry to Dalits into the centuries-old Sri Beereshwara Swamy Temple of Cheeranahalli and their participation in the procession of the deity had surfaced earlier this year too, the same had been resolved following the intervention of the Mandya taluk administration officials a meeting of representatives of various castes and village elders.
