Thiruvananthapuram: Crisis for Sabarimala Temple at Kerala intensifies with RSS activist hurling a handmade bomb at Thiruvananthapuram Police station. The act was done in protest of the two women in their 40s entering the Sabarimala temple. Kerala had a state-wide hartal called by Sabarimala Karma Samithi.
The hand-made bomb was hurled at Nedumangad Police Station on Thursday. CCTC cameras captured the entire act. The Nedumangad Police released the identity of the man on Sunday. The man was identified as Praveen who is an RSS Pracharak, reported The News Minute.
Praveen has gone into hiding and his search is still on, stated Nedumangad Police.
Watch the video released by the Police on Asianet News:
Over 1,300 cases were registered by the Kerala police in hartal-related violence all over the state, and over 3,187 people have been arrested so far.
The adverse hartal
The hartal on Thursday had been called to protest against the entry of two women in their forties, Bindu and Kanaka Durga. These two brave women had entered the
Previously women had tried to enter the temple with Police protection but had failed to enter amidst protests.
Landmark SC Judgment
The Supreme Court on September 28, 2018 paved the way for the entry of women of all ages into the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala in Kerala in a landmark judgment. The CJI said devotion cannot be subjected to discrimination and patriarchal notion cannot be allowed to trump equality in devotion. He said devotees of Lord Ayyappa do not constitute a separate denomination.
Watershed moment in history
Women coming together to break the Brahminical patriarchy is simply commendable. The women’s wall on the New Year day demonstrated the collective power of women in Kerala.
The wall is the longest known human wall. Over 35 lakh women stood shoulder-to-shoulder to form a 620 km long human chain across national highways in Kerala to uphold gender equality.
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