[HCDX] Trinidad gets a Hindu radio station

[Mukesh Kumar <thecosmosclub@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trinidad gets a Hindu radio station

PORT OF SPAIN: After several years of legal battles at
different levels, Trinidad and Tobago will get its
first 'Hindu' radio station. 

The move comes after the British Privy Council ordered
the government to give the 'Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha'
(SDMS) led by Satnarayan Maharaj a radio licence
"forthwith". 

The Law Lords ruled that "an appropriate frequency to
be agreed with by the Central Broadcasting Services
(CBS) Ltd., or in default of agreement, to be
determined by the High Court." 

The state was also ordered to pay the SDMS costs of
brining its appeal to the Privy Council and those
incurred. 

The station will be the first radio facility
"promoting" Hinduism in the Caribbean nation which has
a population of over 300,000 Hindus. 

Meanwhile, Maharaj has called on Prime Minister
Patrick Manning to appoint a commission of inquiry
into the process by which the organisation was finally
granted its broadcasting licence. 

"The drama is now beginning to unfold. We are not
satisfied merely with this judgment," he said, and
claimed that the "treatment meted out to the Maha
Sabha was consistent to that against the Hindu and
East Indian community if they did not support the
ruling People's National Movement

Regards & 73?s
Mukesh Kumar
MUZAFFARPUR 
INDIA.



		
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