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On Saturday, erstwhile the State authorities filed written submissions earlier the Supreme Court connected the contented of introduction of women of each property groups into the Sabarimala temple, the Congress and the BJP flayed the authorities for its alleged volte-face successful presumption of the elections.
Devaswom Minister V.N. Vasavan, however, said the State government’s stance connected the contented was accordant with the affidavit it had filed successful 2007 successful the Supreme Court.
“We filed an affidavit successful 2007 stating that the contented should beryllium decided by experts successful ritualistic matters. We are inactive maintaining that stance,” helium told the media.
Mr. Vasavan said the Supreme Court had lone sought clarification connected definite law aspects of the matter. “We person entrusted the Advocate General and law experts successful the Supreme Court to contiguous the response,” helium said.
“The party’s stance is the aforesaid arsenic the government’s. The authorities is with the devotees. We person ever been with the devotees,” helium said.
Mr. Vasavan alleged that the 2018 verdict of the Supreme Court allowing women of each property groups introduction into the temple came aft women lawyers associated with the BJP approached the Supreme Court. “It was [a radical of] BJP’s young lawyers who filed the lawsuit and received the verdict. They past called it a historical judgement. But they soon changed their position,” he argued.
However, AICC wide caput (organisation) K.C. Venugopal, MP, alleged a alteration of stance connected the portion of the authorities successful presumption of the assembly elections, which helium described arsenic a “desperate effort to flight the hard governmental concern it presently faces”.
Talking to the media in Guruvayur, helium called it a governmental U-turn driven by electoral compulsions. He said if the government had adopted a conciliatory attack soon aft the Supreme Court verdict and informed the tribunal astir the applicable difficulties successful implementing the order, the State could person avoided the unrest and tensions that followed.
“Devotees would not person faced hardships, properties would not person been damaged, and galore radical would not person been forced to look ineligible cases,” helium said, blaming the CPI(M)’s “anti-faith” presumption for the crisis.
Terming the government’s stance ‘hypocritical’, former State BJP president Kummanam Rajasekharan asked the authorities to urgently retreat the cases filed against those who fought for the preservation of temple customs. Seeking to close the affidavit without withdrawing the cases filed against Sabarimala devotees reeks of treble standards, helium argued.
Former BJP State president V. Muraleedharan attacked the CPI(M) and the Congress for trying to fool the devotees connected the issue. He said that portion the authorities tried to make the content that it had changed its stance connected the contented of allowing women of each property groups into the temple, it was actually betraying the devotees. Instead of openly saying it opposes the introduction of women, the authorities is saying that specified decisions should beryllium taken by experts, helium said.
The Congress, helium said, initially sided with the devotees and past slowly withdrew from the scene.
