Click to play videoBangalore: The city-based ISKCON's Akshaya Patra Foundation that supplies mid-day meals to more than 10 lakh school children in seven states is now under scanner.
The Karnataka government has ordered a legislature committee probe into possible irregularities, after Congress leader DK Shivakumar alleged that ISKCON was 'marketing' India's poverty abroad and making money out of it.
“They've been showing our children through the world as crying and they're not saying it's a government-sponsored programme. They're collecting Rs 1,200 per children by marketing. In one year 25 lakh dollars are collected,” Shivakumar alleges.
But ISKCON insists these allegations are spurred by the ISKCON Mumbai branch, which has been fighting court battle for the last few years.
“They're the same things that ISKCON Bombay has been taking about. They've been talking to political leaders and have given all kinds of complaints to PM,” says Madhu Pandit Dasa of ISKCON Bangalore.
Congress alleges that ISKCON has been buying up land in the city's outskirts for realty projects from public funds.
ISKCON admits it has bought 63 acres of land to build a modern theme park though a different trust - and it'll build apartments to raise money for the theme park.
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