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Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan said the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition would dispatch a delegation to Sabarimala to spotlight the woes faced by lakhs of pilgrims who question darshan astatine the Ayyappa temple during the engaged Mandalam-Makaravilakku season.
Mr. Satheesan accused the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) and the State authorities of giving pilgrims safety, welfare, and accidental for a hassle-free darshan the abbreviated shrift.
He accused the constabulary of facilitating a stampede-like concern successful Sabarimala by implementing shoddy crowd-control measures. Mr. Satheesan said instrumentality enforcers failed successful regulating the crowd, causing a perchance disastrous pile-up of pilgrims acold beyond the holding capableness of Sabarimala.
“Pilgrims had to crook backmost astatine Pampa arsenic Sabarimala remained inaccessible owed to shoddy assemblage management. The TDB did not guarantee that the pilgrims, stranded for hours successful agelong queues, were fixed nourishment and water. Toilets lacked moving h2o and hence, were unhygienic and patently intolerable to use,” helium added.
Mr. Satheesan said the authorities was culpable successful the theft of gilded panels from the temple, and that the Kerala High Court-monitored investigation, if conducted properly, would nett respective much high-ups successful the TDB and the government.
