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The Congress and the BJP sparked a caller contention connected Friday by accusing erstwhile Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) president and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] person A. Padmakumar of entrusting consecrated ineffable objects utilized for worship successful the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple’s sanctum sanctorum to his relatives for restoration.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan alleged that the TDB had successful 2019 issued a “mystifyingly suspicious order” entrusting deity’s “yoga dandu bound with metallic rings” and “ornamented rudraksha necklaces” to Mr. Padmakumar’s lad for mending and further embellishment with precious metal, perchance gold.
Mr. Satheesan demanded that Mr. Padmakumar archer Ayyappa devotees which criteria oregon TDB norms helium had followed erstwhile entrusting the ineffable objects to his lad for overhaul.
He accused Mr. Padmakumar of nepotism and said the erstwhile president had thrown the TDB manual to the wind. Mr. Satheesan demanded that Mr. Padmakumar uncover wherever the repair works were done and by whom.
The latest contention came adjacent connected the heels of the High Court’s reflection that immoderate radical successful connivance with TDB officials had misappropriated the gold-cladded copper plates enveloping the temple’s past and revered chromatic carvings and sculptures for merchantability to affluent collectors and backstage worship.
Former Union Minister and BJP person V. Muraleedharan said Ayyappan’s possessions were not the household spot of immoderate idiosyncratic to grip the hallowed objects of worship arsenic they saw fit.
Mr. Muraleedharan accused Mr. Padmakumar of giving lakhs of ardent Ayyappa devotees the abbreviated shrift by entrusting the deity’s possessions with his son.
“Mr. Padmakumar has overmuch to explicate to Ayyappa devotees. For one, helium has to authorities the TDB norm that empowered him to transportation the ineffable objects to his son,” helium added.
Mr. Padmakumar told reporters successful Pathanamthitta that the TDB had placed connected the authoritative grounds the transportation of the ineffable objects to his lad for repair. He said the entrusting of the overhaul was transparent and not surreptitious arsenic alleged by the Opposition parties.
“My lad is an Ayyappa devotee, and helium offered to reconstruct the spiritual artefacts. The ineffable objects were repaired connected the temple premises by smiths and not taken retired of the Ayyappa temple arsenic alleged by immoderate quarters,” helium said.
