Thiruvananthapuram: Congress leader K Muraleedharan said that the sudden eruption of tension in Sabarimala was the result of a secret pact between the CPM and the Sangh Parivar.
“The government has engineered the latest bout of provocation just when the BJP's Sabarimala agitation had lost steam. The CPM should desist from providing oxygen to a dying BJP party machinery,” K Muraleedharan told the media here on Wednesday.
“There was opposition within the BJP when the venue of the agitation was shifted to the Secretariat. The cadre was deeply unhappy at the turn of events. Shobha Surendran's fast is having no impact whatsoever. Things looked seriously bad for the BJP. Now with women attempting to enter Sabarimala during December 23 and 24, the BJP cadre has found a new vigour,” Muraleedharan said.
The Congress leader, who is also the chairman of the party's campaign committee for the upcoming Lok Sabha election, said the manner in which the Manithi women reached the state smacked of a government design. “How did these women reach Pampa and Appachimedu? It looks highly mysterious,” he said.
Eleven members of the Chennai-based Manithi unsuccessfully tried to make their way up the hills to the Lord Ayyappa shrine Sunday.
No vehicles, except that of people's representatives or VIPs, are allowed beyond Nilakkal. Devotees will have to park their vehicles at Nilakkal and proceed to Pamba on KSRTC buses. “Then, why were the vehicles of these women allowed to move up to Pamba,” he asked. “There was an over-enthusiasm on the part of the police to escort them. Later the women themselves said that the police had assured them of adequate protection,” he added.
According to Muraleedharan, yet another sign of the CPM-RSS nexus was the non-arrest of the miscreants involved in the torching of Sandeepananda Giri's ashram on October 27. “Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who was one of the first people to reach the Ashram, declared that it was the work of the RSS,” Muraleedharan said. “Now, it has been over two months and not a single RSS person has been arrested,” he said.
Similar is the case with the attack on the NSS office at Melamcode in Thiruvananthapuram. “Industries minister E P Jayarajan was quick to say that it was the handiwork of the RSS. If the RSS men were the culprits, why have they not been arrested?” Muraleedharan wondered.
Muraleedharan also warned bureaucrats who implemented the oral diktats of the government related to the 'Women's Wall'. “Those officials who spend government money on the basis of mere oral orders from the government will suffer in future. The money will be deducted from even your pension amount,” the Congress MLA warned.
The LDF government had said the 'Women's Wall' would be formed on January 1 from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram to demonstrate the secular and progressive mindset of the state. The decision was announced after the government faced stiff opposition from the right-wing outfits against the implementation of the Supreme Court verdict that allowed women of all age groups to enter the temple.
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