In a secular state, there is no justification for any state Government to manage the funds or any activity of the places of worship of any religion. It is really unfortunate that this negative policy adopted by the British to divide and disable Bharat (https://www.esamskriti.com/e/NATIONAL-AFFAIRS/How-Hindu-temples-came-under-Government-control-1.aspx) continues to this day, even after 76 years of independence. It is high time the administration of temples is released from the clutches of the state governments.

I appeal to every rational-thinking citizen of India, from every religion, to support this just cause. If the governments spend the money that belongs to temples to improve the school education of disadvantaged sections of society by creating extraordinary schools to ensure every child turns into an Ambedkar or Abdul Kalam, we can accept. However, the politicians use this money for their selfish ends, offer freebies to people to make them lazy, and appease other religions, thus explicitly creating a division between the religions. Let us wake up and question these divisive policies of the state governments.

I ask every brother and sister of India to sign my petition, so that the Supreme Court of India takes this as a public interest litigation, and give directions to all the states to release the temples from Government control and stop misusing the funds donated to the temples by people. The only duty of the government is to ensure that such public funds are not misused; for this, certain auditing may be undertaken by an independent body, but not by the politicians. Our media has projected statistics that many members of parliament, from every party, have quite a few criminal cases against them, which make them ineligible to manage temple funds.

When temples are managed by well-known, respected, and honest individuals, the priests in many temples currently mismanaged by different state governments will be better-taken care of. Better ideas shall also evolve as to how to make better use of excess funds from some temples to improve unity and equality among the citizens of Bharat and maybe make all our schools extraordinary, leading to a glorious nation that will be a leading light for the world.

If you agree in principle that the managing of temple funds by state governments must be stopped by a Supreme Court order, kindly sign my petition.