Hindu Mandir Board Turmoil Continues Amid Leadership Resignations
The internal challenges facing the Hindu Mandir board have continued, with ongoing disagreements resulting in significant leadership vacuum and organizational instability.
In the latest development, the newly elected Chair and Vice-Chair have both resigned after months of reported tensions and hostilities among board members. Their departures leave the board without key leadership at a time when unity and stability are especially important.
The internal conflicts also led to another lawsuit involving members of the board. Although the legal action was eventually withdrawn, the dispute highlighted the extent of the divisions among the active board members that have affected the Mandir’s governance.
Further compounding these challenges, the Mandir’s Executive Committee, which is responsible for overseeing the organization’s day-to-day operations, is rudderless and now functioning with only the President remaining in office. The other executive positions remain vacant.
With much of the Executive Committee vacant, questions persist about the declining attendance and a noticeable reduction in donations that could have a significant impact on the Mandir’s financial viability and long-term sustainability as a going concern.
Despite these ongoing challenges for the past three years, there is encouraging news. The Mandir’s two dedicated priests, Pandit Brijesh Ji and Pandit Vishnu Ji, have remained committed and continuing to provide religious, and spiritual services to the growing Hindu community of Southern Nevada.
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This is what happens when there is no central organization, away from the temple, to run it. Local donors and volunteers following proven and successful rules and regulations. Our bigger problem has been inability of the trustees to make the community part of the the temple management, their authoritarian style,and lack of management skills. Let us hope the void is not filled by a worst management.
There are two main issues 1. By laws need to change for better. 2. Money should not be the basis of board member ( one may give them status as honorary post as non voting member for input) Donations should be raised for specific purposes instead of asking money. Purpose is only to raise for shortfall!! 3. Bring dedicated devotees who has ” service to community is service to GOD” mindset. Temple should be the last place to play politics. Ask Swaminarayan Temple priest how they run the temple. Ask Shrinath temple PA, and get their input.
Typical of Indian DNA: personal egos get in the way of cooperative communicative joint effort.
Congratulations to both the priests for continuing their religious work! Hope the temple will get the leadership it needs to flourish in the future. Congratulations to all those others who have served to improve our temple with great devotion!
Priests have nothing to do with the management problems of the temple. Congratulate them for what? Not being part of the problemm? Funny!
Trustees are fighting among themselves to settle personal disputes and insulting each other ,resulting in costly Lawsuits and then misusing the devottes donations to pay huge amounts to Attorneys.Last Year Few trustees withdraw nearly $ 250,000 from Temple account to pay to attorney.This time also again Lawsuits came up resulting in the resignation of current leadership.
Last Year, Mr Jain Trustee and co-founder of Temple, Promised to the community in the Town Hall meeting that Their Group of trustees will reimburse Whatever money they withdrew from the Temple account. Till now not a penny has been deposited.
They withdraw money more then what they donated or invested.($50,000 donation is required to become a trustee )
WHY THEY DO NOT RESIGN FROM BOARD AS THEY FAILED TOTALLY TO RUN THIS TEMPLE.
Temple committee is the the only Body working for last 22-23 years.
I am sure these trustees think they are the REAL OWNER OF TEMPLE-they appear to treat the temple as personal property rather than a public, community focus institution.
ANY BODY CAN ASK GOOGLE AI OR CHATGPT THE PROCEDURES FOR THEIR REMOVAL FROM BOARD.
THEY HAVE FULFILLED ALL REQUIREMENTS NEEDED WHERE STATE CAN SACK THEM FROM BOARD.