Updates 19/11/2018 1530Hrs.
1. Adv. General of Kerala comes in person to High Court and "explains" the reasons for the police measures at Sabari Mala shrine. The court said that Sabari Mala cannot be made a war front. The court has clearly said that old men & women, and pilgrims with children should be allowed to camp at Sannidhanam. DGP has to file an affidavit on why the resting places were flooded with water, since then no one can then lie down/sit down there. The DGP in turn have given a show-cause notice to the IG and SP on duty at the hill top yesterday asking why they did what they did yesterday. The key question asked by High Court is -
When the supreme court verdict has no directives/actionables; on whose authority did the K.P took drastic steps at the shrine.
2. Mean while the
six women activists who had planned to make a visit today have now chicked out and decided to do a "Press meet" instead. They are now singing a completely different song now, by now saying that they prefer going to the temple with the full approval of the devotees. The women also now fear ostracisation from their own families and the community
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3.
Travancore Devaswom Board submits a petition to Supreme Court asking for more time to implemention of the verdict. But it is not clear when the petition gets "mentioned" (i.e listed). And again there are doubts on whether TDB has submitted all relevant documents to the advocates helping them at the Supreme Court. Instead of sending some one to Delhi with the documents, they are trying Speed Post
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SSridhar wrote:See the deviousness of The Hindu.
The Hindu is actually a bit late. These kind of devious demands have been made by communist intellectuals in Kerala two-three weeks back. But the fact is that
Mala araya community etc. will not get any support from any other Hindu groups in Kerala, because they are comfortable with the system as of today.
disha wrote:Overall, it helps build the right narrative that commies are anti-swamis and only want to loot.
+1. And now what? The Congress folks in Kerala have realised that they are getting forgotten in this whole issue. So they too
plan to send their leaders to the hill temple . At this rate CPI too may start sending their leaders from next week on.
Yagansri wrote:I am quite sure that the same in case of normal KP personal. It is quite possible the "police" in this case may be CPM goons or/and EJ/peaceful fellows.
Take for example the police men seen vandalising vehicles etc. One of them was seen stealing a helmet. This police man had later appeared on social media and said that he stole the helmet because he had to protect his head (from flying stones). It looks like the police force now deployed at Sabari Mala are not Hindus. Yes it could be a mix of commies, EJs, peacefools. And many of the superior officers, are also not very experienced in handling Sabari Mala pilgrimage.
There was a plan by CPI & CPI(M) to actually ask for central police forces. The idea was that if they get deployed, the responsibility of their conduct would fall on the central government. But they were also worried that the CPO men (who could be devout Hindus from other parts of India) would actually side the pilgrims, and they may not cooperate with the K.P mode of "crowd management".