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DEHRA DUN, INDIA, April 8, 2005: The Char Dham Teerth Bachao Sangharsh Samiti has threatened to not allow reopening of the doors of the Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yamunotri and Gangotri shrines if the Government does not drop the move to bring about an Act to regulate the management of the shrines and temples in Uttaranchal. Describing the move as an attempt by the Government to convert the shrines into revenue earning centers, the Samiti president, Ashok Semwal, accused politicians and bureaucrats of trying to assume powers that could be used to threaten the priests and Temple Committees that refused to obey their dictats. A Government spokesman, however, said that the fears of the various samitis were baseless as the proposed Act aimed at regulating the management of the shrines and developing the areas around them without interfering into their routine functioning or the rights, traditions or privileges of the local priests or population.

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