Suri: A flex put up on Monday evening at the entrance of the Kankalitala temple in Bolpur announced that only Hindus will be allowed to worship at the temple, one of the five Shakti Peethas in Birbhum.According to local residents, the banner was put up by unidentified youths claiming to be associated with “Sanatan Paksha”.Temple priest Baidyanath Chakraborty said, “We have neither removed the banner nor supported it.”“No one is prohibited from entering the temple premises, but generally Hindus worship before the deity,” the priest said.Pulak Chatterjee, senior priest at the Tarapith temple, another major temple in Birbhum, said there are no restrictions or verification process for devotees there. He said many non-Hindu VIPs have visited the temple in the past and paid homage without any controversy, underlining that such exclusionary messages are contrary to the temple traditions of Bengal.The local unit of BJP has denied any involvement. BJP’s Bolpur unit president Shyamapad Mandal said he had no information about the flex. “We do not want to impose any new rules for any place of worship. The temple should be run by the temple authority,” he said.