Sri Lanka’s Minister of Buddha Sasana, Gamini Jayawickrama Perera, who was in India last month, had keen to visit the famous Lingaraja temple in Odisha but was prevented by the temple priests.
The temple priests had refused to allow him entry as he was not a Hindu, according to the Indian Financial Express.
Perera relayed his experience at a conference organised by the Kalinga International Foundation at Bhubaneswar, to an embarrassed audience. The foundation’s chairman, former Indian foreign secretary Lalit Mansingh, apologised profusely on behalf of his state, the news report said.
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