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Struggle for Rumtek worries home ministry.

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Byline: Bisheshwar Mishra

: A politico-religious power struggle among Tibetan Buddhists over Sikkim's Rumtek monastery - the highest spiritual and temporal seat of one lakh Tibetan refugees in India - is ''full of security ramifications for India'', senior officials say.

The Union home ministry is perturbed over the prospect of a handful of Tibetan refugees exerting pressure on this sensitive border state which China still does not recognise as part of India.

''Instead of controlling the threat to law and order posed by the feuding Tibetans, the state government appears to have succumbed to their pressures'' by writing to the commissioner appointed by the court to postpone the inventory of movable and immovable assets of the monastery, a senior government official said on Wednesday.

Sikkim's home department wrote to the court appointed commissioner (a senior RBI official) on May 2, 7 and 9 to postpone the inventory which was to be held on May 14 to some time in June as the state government ''apprehended serious law and order problems''.

The letter said that they ''cannot allow the court commissioner to enter the monastery as religious articles cannot be touched by a non-Buddhist''. It appealed ''to protect the people from bloodshed, untoward incidents and losing their self-control''.

''It is indeed surprising that when there were clear orders from the court for the inventory, the state ...

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