A con­tro­ver­sy over the cost of cre­ma­tions at the Ca­roni Cre­ma­tion Site (CCS) is now brew­ing be­tween Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man Josi­ah Austin and the spir­i­tu­al head of the Satya Anand Ashram, Pun­dit Satyanand Ma­haraj.

Ma­haraj is claim­ing that be­reaved Hin­dus are be­ing made to pay more for open-air pyre cre­ma­tions at the CCS by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-con­trolled cor­po­ra­tion.

Austin, how­ev­er, re­fut­ed the re­li­gious leader’s “al­leged dis­crim­i­na­tion,” stat­ing that the cor­po­ra­tion has been serv­ing all re­li­gious back­grounds eq­ui­tably and re­spect­ful­ly.