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Amid signs that the CPI(M) has succeeded successful its efforts to prosecute the influential Nair Service Society (NSS) successful Kerala, Devaswom Minister V.N. Vasavan has welcomed the assemblage organisation’s enactment for the caller Global Ayyappa Sangamam organised by the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB).
Speaking to mediapersons successful Kottayam connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025), Mr. Vasavan said “the NSS is an organisation that adopts positions based connected issues. It expresses its views and, connected occasions, offers constructive criticism. It has ne'er opposed the LDF government.”
He described the disapproval raised by the NSS against the BJP and the Congress for their “non-participation” successful the Global Ayyappa Sangamam arsenic constructive. “The NSS has ever taken a stance successful favour of the improvement of Sabarimala, and determination is nary request to nexus this with the upcoming elections,” the Minister said.
Regarding the Sabarimala Samrakshanan Sangamam, a parallel lawsuit organised by Sangh Parivar outfits, Mr. Vasavan pointed retired that the Pandalam Palace itself had lodged a ailment against 1 of the event’s speakers for allegedly making communal remarks.
“There is an aggravated effort to communalise a secular culture. The BJP and the RSS person suggested replacing Vavar Swami with the conception of ‘Vapuri’. Such a determination is wholly unacceptable,” the Minister said, adding that the existing strategy astatine Sabarimala would “continue unchanged.”
