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Signalling that the United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition would not relent unless Devaswom Minister V.N. Vasavan resigned implicit the Sabarimala golden ‘theft’ allegations, Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan has said the High Court’s “observations” person underlined the allegations raised by the UDF.
Speaking to presspersons aft the Legislative Assembly league connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025) was chopped abbreviated owed to sustained UDF protests, Mr. Satheesan alleged that the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) had colluded with sponsor Unnikrishnan Potti to deceive lakhs of devotees.
“It has present been revealed that the Dwarapalaka idol which reached Chennai for restoration works was different 1 made of copper, portion the existent gold-plated 1 was sold astatine a precocious complaint to someone. The State authorities should archer america which affluent idiosyncratic did they merchantability this gold-plated idol to. This is intelligibly a theft and merchantability successful which crores of rupees is involved. The Devaswom Board was precise overmuch alert of this theft, but it chose to hush up the full incidental arsenic galore large guns successful the committee and the authorities are portion of the operation,” alleged Mr. Satheesan.
He said the protests demanding Mr. Vasavan’s resignation would proceed extracurricular the House excessively successful the coming days.
