Sabarimala row: BJP to protest against detention of party leader K Surendran; stage blockade across Kerala

  • | Sunday | 18th November, 2018

The one-and-a-half hour blockade will begin at 10am.BJP state president P Sreedharan Pillai said that the party would observe a day-long protest on Sunday. PATHANAMTHITTA (KERALA): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will stage a protest on Sunday after party Kerala general secretary K Surendran was not allowed to go towards Sabarimala temple and detained later.As part of the protest, the BJP has decided to hold highway blockades in 100 locations across the state.In Pathanamthitta district where Sabarimala is located, the highway blockade will be held at Thiruvalla. Earlier, the entry of female aged between 10 and 50 years was prohibited into the shrine.This is the third time that the temple has opened after the apex court lifted restrictions on women entry. "There will be one-hour blockade of national highway from 10am. We won't inconvenience the public for long," he said.Surendran and his party workers, who were heading to the hill-top shrine of Lord Ayyappa on Saturday, was stopped at Nilakkal and asked to return.

PATHANAMTHITTA (KERALA): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will stage a protest on Sunday after party Kerala general secretary K Surendran was not allowed to go towards Sabarimala temple and detained later.As part of the protest, the BJP has decided to hold highway blockades in 100 locations across the state.In Pathanamthitta district where Sabarimala is located, the highway blockade will be held at Thiruvalla. The one-and-a-half hour blockade will begin at 10am.BJP state president P Sreedharan Pillai said that the party would observe a day-long protest on Sunday. "There will be one-hour blockade of national highway from 10am. We won't inconvenience the public for long," he said.Surendran and his party workers, who were heading to the hill-top shrine of Lord Ayyappa on Saturday, was stopped at Nilakkal and asked to return. He was later taken to the police custody.Sabarimala temple reopened on Friday for a 62-day long Mandala Pooja-Magaravilaku annual pilgrimage season.A string of protests was witnessed in Kerala in October when the temple opened for the first time after the Supreme Court passed the order, allowing females of all age group to enter into the shrine. Earlier, the entry of female aged between 10 and 50 years was prohibited into the shrine.This is the third time that the temple has opened after the apex court lifted restrictions on women entry. So far 3,505 protestors have been arrested and around 529 cases were registered in connection with a series of incidents of violence that erupted in the state over the entry of women into the Lord Ayyappa temple.With inputs from ANI

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