Mangaluru: The unending trial of Made Snana as well as Yede Snana continues as some of the city based leaders and organizations have decided to hold a rally on November 14, demanding the government ban such practices.

K S Shivaram, president of the Rajya Hindulida Vargagala Jagrutha Vedike, which is organizing the rally, said it would begin at the Kote Anjaneya Temple in Mysuru on November 14 and reach Kukke Subrahmanya, Mangaluru the next day.

Expressing his displeasure at Sri Chennamalla Swamiji of Nidumamidi Mutt and other petitioners agreeing in court to confine themselves to Yede Snana while giving up the Made Snana ritual, he said, “Practices like Made Snana, Pankti Bedha and Yede Snana are all inhuman”.

We oppose Yede Snana too as devotees are still allowed to roll on the plantain leaves with naivedyam instead of leftovers like in Made Snana.  The government must ban this practice too, he said.

Coming down hard on the wastage of food in the name of a religious practice, Shivaramu opposed the use of milk during the “Mahamastakabhisheka”.  “We will oppose this practice too,” he declared.

Calling Pankti Bedha (separate seating for Brahmins during lunch)  as a form of untouchability, Shivaram said the enforcement of the anti- superstition law was essential to get rid of all such practices.