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Bihar board of religious trust appoints Dalit priest 26 Oct 2008, 0235 hrs IST, TNN PATNA: A Dalit, Jagdish Das, has been appointed the priest of the famous Maniyari Mutt in Muzaffarpur. Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts administrator Kishore Kunal, in a press release issued here on Saturday, said that the mutt was established in 1733 by a wandering mendicant from Jaunpur, and since then a galaxy of illustrious mahanths, including Mahanth Darshan Das, who set up MDDM College in Muzaffarpur and an ayurvedic hospital and Sanskrit college at Maniyari, have been associated with the mutt. Kunal said Muzaffarpur district has witnessed social tension arising out of discrimination. In 2005, the problem was so acute that even then minister Ramai Ram was not allowed entry into a Kali temple managed by villagers, he said.
