Some protest following mandir demolition on drive-in road

Ahmedabad, 1 july, 2014

There was a chaos for some time, mainly contributing adversly to traffic on Ahmedabad’s Gurukul-Himalaya mall road today morning following demolition of a 40 years old road-side Hanuman mandir by Ahmedabdad Municipal Corporation’s teams in the night. The mandir was encroachment according to the AMC officials, however the pujari of mandir raised question that why the mandir was demolished in dark hours of night without giving any advance notice. Those opposing demolition sat on the road for some time in the morning, the act which resulted into traffic jam for a while.