As Sabarimala controversy escalates, NSS keeps its cards close

Even arsenic the contention implicit the alleged misappropriation of golden astatine Sabarimala temple continues to escalate, the Nair Service Society (NSS) is keeping its cards adjacent to its chest, a crisp departure from its signifier of speaking retired decisively connected matters concerning the Hindu community.

NSS wide caput G. Sukumaran Nair connected Tuesday told the media that the probe connected the alleged misappropriation was being held nether adjacent scrutiny of some the tribunal and the State government, leaving nary country for the organisation to remark prematurely. “All liable for the disappearance of the golden plates indispensable beryllium caught and punished without mercy,” helium said.

The stance of the assemblage organisation comes astatine a clip erstwhile the NSS enactment itself is battling dissent astatine the grassroots level pursuing its nationalist endorsement of the Left Democratic Front government’s Global Ayyappa conscionable astatine Pampa past month.

To code these tensions, the NSS had planned a gathering of its union-level presidents and secretaries past Saturday. That meeting, however, had to beryllium called disconnected astatine the past minute, which again is astir unheard-of for the assemblage organisation.

NSS sources, meanwhile, respect the contiguous governmental uproar implicit the Sabarimala contented arsenic driven much by partisan agendas than genuine concern. They besides noted that the assemblage organisation had received an assurance from the LDF authorities to enactment decisively connected the contented earlier the upcoming section assemblage elections.

“It is captious that some the authorities and the judiciary resoluteness it earlier governmental narratives instrumentality over. Commenting earlier the probe concludes risks turning this into a governmental statement,” noted a source.