Friday evening, no much work for today.
And just browsing the online news channels.
1. There seems to be serious disconnect between the Travancore Devaswom Board and Kerala Police. The Devaswom Board president has now said that police did not consult them before formalising the security scheme at the hill temple. Even
prasadam counters which worked round the clock, will now have to close. That would further hit the revenues of TDB (and not the police
). There are lots of guest houses, dormitories under TDB which has been booked well in advance. Now police says no one will stay there in the night hours. The eatery owners (who have taken this on tender with TDB) have said that they are just closing down their business. For TDB & these small time business folks; this pilgrim season is a big huge cash cow.
2. The officers from K.P on duty at Sabari Mala this time around are all new comers, is what I could understand. Because of which they don't have any clue on the temple pooja timings, crowd movements, and the mandatory rituals. The entire
"bandobust scheme" seems to have not seen a proper review. Officers like Sreejith IPS and P. Vijayan IPS who knows Sabari Mala like their own home, are not on duty this time. They may join in at a later point of time. The officers now commanding the police teams have instructed that all police officials would be in their proper "working uniforms" (i.e peak caps, leather belts, boots etc.) Men posted below the hill temple all would have their shields and lathis with them. Salutes to replace
Swami saranams. The ethos at Sabari Mala was that every one is a
Swami Ayyappa, and all holding an equal rank and status. Police men were
Police Swamis, and had a very informal dress code. Camraderie of every one around was the key.
3. Kerala Govt. and the commies who hollered that
"allowing entry to every one" is progressiveness, has not even put in 30% of the required efforts to improve the situation at Sabari Mala. This was an area which took maximum hit during the floods. Pampa river (which was flooded) is having a water level of a feet at the bathing points. Toilet blocks are very limited. There has been no reconstruction which happened on war footing, and GoKL and TDB were only focusing on getting young women up this temple.
4. This may be the most botched up Sabari mala pilgrim season ever. The floods were a calamity, but the Supreme Court verdict related fiasco could have been avoided. But all concerned officials and ministers consider the Chief Minister as another Josef Stalin and wait for his instructions for each and every thing. And Stalin himself, has no sense of diplomacy and has to be tutored by a brigade of advisors (all having their own hidden agendas). On social media trolls are at their most severe form. Commies on social media have actually stopped responding; as they have pretty much run out of excuses and reasoning.
to press, hinted that they will take the fall on behalf of CM, by claiming in front of courts that they can’t enforce verdict
. This is when not even media person or supplies to the temple were allowed to reach there. There were also old women in the group, 
