November 20, 2018:
On Monday, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan justified police action in Sabarimala, saying those who tried to create trouble were arrested on Sunday night.
He even accused the Sangh Parivar of implementing its agenda.
CM at the state conference of the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) said, "They were not Ayyappa devotees. RSS workers were camping at Sannidhanam with a motive to create trouble. The government cannot let anyone create trouble at Sabarimala."
68 persons were taken into custody from the Ayyappa temple complex in the early hours & brought to the Manniyar camp.
Asserting that his govt was with the devotees, Vijayan said it was being targeted for trying to implement the SC order permitting entry of all women into the Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala.
Chief Minister said that his Govt was not taking any steps to take women to Lord Ayyappa temple but made it clear that post the Supreme Court verdict, it has the constitutional responsibility to provide security to women devotees reaching the hill shrine to offer prayers.
Vijayan urged the media not to fall prey to propaganda that the government was against devotees.
The Govt. has no other way out but to implement the Supreme Court verdict on the Sabarimala issue, he said.
He alleged the Sangh Parivar was trying to implement its "agenda" in Kerala.
He said,"As the successors of the renaissance movement, that agenda cannot be accepted."
The temple had opened Friday evening for the 64-day annual pilgrimage season as the stand-off continued over entry of menstrual age women into the shrine following a Supreme Court order on September 28.
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