Mysuru, May 24 -- Various Dalit activists led by former Mayor Purushotham take objection to temple plans on a Dalit-owned land

The ceremony to lay foundation stone for the construction of Dakshina Ayodhya Sri Baalarama Mandira (temple) at Harohalli-Gujjegowdanapura village in Mysuru, scheduled to be held yesterday, was suspended at the last minute, following the stiff opposition of various Dalit activists.

Harohalli-Gujjegowdanapura is the village from where the black schist stone for the carving of Balak Ram idol installed at Ayodhya Sri Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh, was sourced.

Baalarama Shilodbhava Kshetra Charitable Trust (BRSK), founded by H. Ramdas (in whose land, where one Srinivas Nataraj is running a quarry and the black schis...