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Communist Party of India (Marxist) cardinal committee subordinate E.P. Jayarajan connected Tuesday dismissed disapproval that the precocious held Global Ayyappa Sangamam was a ‘failure’, stating that those who deliberation truthful are escaped to judge it, but the lawsuit had a wide intent of strengthening Sabarimala’s maturation arsenic a planetary pilgrimage centre.
Speaking to reporters successful Kannur, Mr. Jayarajan said the Opposition had adopted a constrictive stance towards the Sangamam and pointed retired that anyone tin organise an Ayyappa conference.
He alleged that the absorption had aligned itself with groups holding alternate conferences and said United Democratic Front person V.D. Satheesan’s stance was successful enactment with that of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
The purpose of the Sangamam was to unite Ayyappa devotees worldwide and to guarantee that Sabarimala develops arsenic a centre of pilgrimage. Like Tirupati, the maturation of Sabarimala has a important relation to play successful Kerala’s development, helium said drafting parallels with however Saudi Arabia benefited economically from planetary pilgrimages to Mecca.
On questions raised astir Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan being referred to arsenic an Ayyappa devotee, Mr. Jayarajan brushed disconnected criticism, saying detractors could marque immoderate assertion but it carried small value.
