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Swami Aniket Shastri Deshpande Maharaj of Mahant Shri Mandalacharya Peethadeeshwar has called a Dharam Sansad to be held in Nashik today. The purpose of this religious "parliament" is to determine the birthplace of Hanuman, a Hindu deity, who was himself a huge devotee of another Hindu deity Ram.

A controversy regarding the birthplace of Lord Hanuman surfaced recently after claims made by a saint from Karnataka, Mahant Govind Das of Kishkinda, that Lord Hanuman was born in Kishkindha, Karnataka instead of Anjaneri, Nashik. The saint has based his claims by referring to Valmiki Ramayana.

According to NDTV, he said, “In the Ramayana, Maharishi Valmiki has nowhere written that Lord Hanuman was born in Anjaneri. The birthplace always remains in one place and it is not written anywhere that Lord Hanuman was born in Anjaneri, Nashik.”

Nashik Police have issued a notice to the organisers to maintain law and order.

There have been several land disputes circling around the birthplace of Hindu deities, the most prominent being Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya, and the developing Krishna Janmabhoomi movement surrounding land upon which the Shahi Idgah mosque is built in Mathura.

Going by the track record of Dharm Sansads held so far, watch this space for reports of hate speech.

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