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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Friday said the High Court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the suspected misappropriation of spiritual artefacts from the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple was the aftermath of a well-entrenched conspiracy to occlude the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s bid to forge a statement among stakeholders, including devotees and Hindu societal organisations, for the shrine’s improvement into a large planetary spiritual destination.
Speaking to reporters successful New Delhi, Mr. Vijayan traced the investigation’s origins to the out-of-the-blue revelation by a erstwhile temple helper-turned-benefactor, Unnikrishnan Potti, that the gold-inlaid copper coverings helium had donated to the temple were missing from the strongroom.
The “bizarre” accusation deed the headlines successful the run-up to the Global Ayyappa Sangamam astatine Pampa successful September. “It was intelligibly a portion of the crippled to escalate matters and derail the important meeting,” helium said.
Moreover, Mr. Vijayan said, the imputation aimed to undermine the spot that lakhs of Ayyappa devotees worldwide had placed successful the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB). The proposition that the TDB stole valuables donated by devotees appeared deliberately designed to empower definite elements intent connected thwarting the sangamam by organising a parallel anti-government lawsuit astatine Pandalam.
Mr. Vijayan said the TDB Vigilance wing’s seizure of the “stolen temple artefacts” from the residence of Mr. Potti’s adjacent comparative upended the entrenched conspiracy to disparage the government. Mr. Vijayan signalled that the intrigue had a stark governmental dimension.
“The SIT, nether Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, H Venkatesh, would bring retired the truth, including those down the crippled and their ulterior motives,” helium said.
Mr. Vijayan said the sweeping probe would screen each facet of the controversy, including the accusation that immoderate radical wrong the TDB had aided circumstantial ”well-connected avatars” who nett from preying connected Ayyappa devotees and monetising their faith.
Mr. Vijayan said Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were connected the aforesaid leafage concerning Sabarimala. “Both parties person broadcast a distrust successful the High Court-monitored probe,” helium said.
Mr. Vijayan said Mr. Satheesan’s concurrence with Union Minister Suresh Gopi’s “strange” complaint that the BJP-controlled Enforcement Directorate unfairly launched an probe into the import of luxury cars from Bhutan to divert nationalist attraction from the Sabarimala contention showed the Congress-BJP axis successful Kerala.
