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Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] person and writer P. Jayarajan has clarified connected a Facebook station pursuing contention implicit his caller sojourn to the Sreekurumba Bhagavathy temple astatine Kodungalloor successful Thrissur territory that the sojourn was portion of probe enactment for his upcoming publication and was not an enactment of devotion.
Mr. Jayarajan, who visited the temple recently, spent astir fractional an hr connected the temple premises and walked astir the complex. However, it is reported that helium did not connection prayers astatine the sanctum of the temple.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders alleged that P. Jayarajan had gone to the temple for darshan, but near rapidly aft realising that radical were watching.
Responding to reports and criticism, Mr. Jayarajan explained his presumption successful the Facebook post. He rejected claims that communists were barred from visiting places of worship.
Non-Brahmanical rituals
“I americium presently moving connected a publication titled Sanathanikalude Hindutva Vazhikal. One section examines non-Brahmanical ritual practices that inactive beryllium successful definite places of worship. Kodungalloor Kavu is 1 specified important site,” helium wrote successful the post.
“Although I had learned astir the temple done studies and section knowledge, I had ne'er visited it personally. So I decided to spot it straight and recognize its unsocial humanities and taste features, including spots similar Kozhikallu, Thavittumuthi and Vasoorimala.”
He added successful his Facebook post: “the insights and observations gained from present volition people go portion of my publication to beryllium released aboriginal this month. I americium penning this successful effect to reports successful immoderate quality channels claiming that I had visited the Kodungalloor temple arsenic an enactment of worship.”
'Visited galore spiritual sites'
Taking a swipe astatine critics, helium remarked: “some radical look to person been misled into believing that communists are not allowed to sojourn places of worship. Not conscionable Kodungalloor Kavu, I person visited galore well-known and lesser-known spiritual sites crossed Kerala. I person been to Ajmer Dargah, the Golden Temple successful Punjab, and respective churches. I person utilized each these visits not arsenic expressions of devotion, but arsenic opportunities to amended recognize society, history, and people’s beliefs.”
"Communists mostly effort to recognize nine successful each its complexities. I americium good alert of however the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) politically misuses religion and places of worship. In my writings, speeches, and beingness experiences truthful far, I person tried to item grounds of this, and I volition proceed to bash so," helium added successful his post.
Mr. Jayarajan stressed that specified visits were not acts of religion but opportunities to recognize society.
