Reluctant, priest attends Dalit marriage
GANESH CHAUDHARY
TIKAPUR, MAR 11 -
A Hindu priest, who refused to solemnise the marriage of a Dalit
couple in Kailali, on Sunday reluctantly performed a ceremony to
exchange nuptial vows and rings bowing down to intense pressure from
police and Dalit rights activists.
Khagendra Prasad Bajhgai, priest at Ghodaghodi Temple of Darakh VDC-5,
had walked out of the temple when Raju Sunar and Puja BK reached there
requesting him to perform their marriage. Later the couple's parents,
miffed by Bajhgai's treatment, filed a complaint against him at the
Area Police Office at Sukhad.
Local Dalit right activists also heard of the priest's impudence
against the couple and arrived at the temple. Police and Dalit
activists then pressed Bajhgai to aplogise for his behaviour and
perform the marriage of Raju and Puja at the temple. Bajhgai
eventually relented when the crowd threatened to dismiss him as the
priest.
Having no option, he solemnised their marriage, the first wedding of a
Dalit couple in his career as a priest.
Posted on: 2012-03-12 08:31
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