THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thousands of people covered up with lamps on streets from Kasaragod to Kaliyikkavila on Wednesday evening as a part of the ‘Ayyppa Jyothi’ programme organized by the Sabarimala Karma Samithi, in association with quite a lot of Hindu organizations and the BJP.
The programme, which was once held as a counter to the state government-sponsored Women’s Wall on January 1, brought into limelight a piece of the general public’s demand for defense of the Sabarimala rituals, especially the constraints in opposition to the entry of women of all ages to the hill shrine. Around 180 Hindu organizations are a part of the Sabarimala Karma Samithi.
Women outnumbered males on the programme, which started at 6pm and lasted for 15 mins. According to the event organizers, the devotees stood side-by-side alongside the 765km stretch with the lamps, which have been lit on the same time around the state.
The ‘wall of lights’ started from the Hosangadi Sri Dharma Sastha temple in Kasaragod and ended at Kaliyikkavila, the place the southern border of Kerala meets Tamil Nadu.
The all-out give a boost to of the NSS and the Yoga Kshema Sabha helped the organizers in making sure participation of women devotees in massive numbers. The political give a boost to by the BJP aided them to control the lengthy queues. The lights have been lit alongside the national highway from Kasaragod to Angamaly and from there on the MC Road, as much as Thiruvananthapuram. From the capital, the folk covered up alongside the national highway as much as Kaliyikkavila. The ‘Ayyappa Jyothi’ was once additionally lit at around 70 points in Tamil Nadu as neatly.
NSS common secretary G Sukumaran Nair lit the lamp at Mannam Samadhi. Nair had pop out in opposition to the Women’s Wall programme of the federal government.
While Suresh Gopi MP participated within the ‘Ayyappa Jyothi’at Kaliyikkavila, former DGP T P Senkumar participated on the tournament at Kilimanoor. Former PSC chairman Okay S Radhakrishnan joined the programme at Angamaly.
BJP state president P S Sreedharan Pillai, O Rajagopal MLA and BJP state common secretary Sobha Surendran lit the lamps in entrance of state secretariat, the place Surendran has been looking at an indefinite starvation strike for the previous eight days.
Meanwhile, BJP leaders Okay Surendran, M S Sampoorna, and Okay Okay Gopalakrishnan, Hindu Aikya Vedi leader Sasikala in addition to writer Madambu Kunjukuttan have been amongst those that participated within the Ayyappa Jyothi programme in Thrissur.
Volunteers attacked in Kannur:
The people who participated on the Ayyappa Jyothi got here beneath attack in different spaces near Payyannur within the district. A couple of have been injured while some buses have been damaged in stone pelting. The BJP alleged that the CPM orchestrated the attacks.
Police said the devotees have been centered in some puts between Perumba and Kalikkadavu, and that they have been admitted to hospitals with minor injuries. At least six buses have been centered, and those that suffered injuries have been mainly the organizers of the event, they added.
The programme, which was once held as a counter to the state government-sponsored Women’s Wall on January 1, brought into limelight a piece of the general public’s demand for defense of the Sabarimala rituals, especially the constraints in opposition to the entry of women of all ages to the hill shrine. Around 180 Hindu organizations are a part of the Sabarimala Karma Samithi.
Women outnumbered males on the programme, which started at 6pm and lasted for 15 mins. According to the event organizers, the devotees stood side-by-side alongside the 765km stretch with the lamps, which have been lit on the same time around the state.
The ‘wall of lights’ started from the Hosangadi Sri Dharma Sastha temple in Kasaragod and ended at Kaliyikkavila, the place the southern border of Kerala meets Tamil Nadu.
The all-out give a boost to of the NSS and the Yoga Kshema Sabha helped the organizers in making sure participation of women devotees in massive numbers. The political give a boost to by the BJP aided them to control the lengthy queues. The lights have been lit alongside the national highway from Kasaragod to Angamaly and from there on the MC Road, as much as Thiruvananthapuram. From the capital, the folk covered up alongside the national highway as much as Kaliyikkavila. The ‘Ayyappa Jyothi’ was once additionally lit at around 70 points in Tamil Nadu as neatly.
NSS common secretary G Sukumaran Nair lit the lamp at Mannam Samadhi. Nair had pop out in opposition to the Women’s Wall programme of the federal government.
While Suresh Gopi MP participated within the ‘Ayyappa Jyothi’at Kaliyikkavila, former DGP T P Senkumar participated on the tournament at Kilimanoor. Former PSC chairman Okay S Radhakrishnan joined the programme at Angamaly.
BJP state president P S Sreedharan Pillai, O Rajagopal MLA and BJP state common secretary Sobha Surendran lit the lamps in entrance of state secretariat, the place Surendran has been looking at an indefinite starvation strike for the previous eight days.
Meanwhile, BJP leaders Okay Surendran, M S Sampoorna, and Okay Okay Gopalakrishnan, Hindu Aikya Vedi leader Sasikala in addition to writer Madambu Kunjukuttan have been amongst those that participated within the Ayyappa Jyothi programme in Thrissur.
Volunteers attacked in Kannur:
The people who participated on the Ayyappa Jyothi got here beneath attack in different spaces near Payyannur within the district. A couple of have been injured while some buses have been damaged in stone pelting. The BJP alleged that the CPM orchestrated the attacks.
Police said the devotees have been centered in some puts between Perumba and Kalikkadavu, and that they have been admitted to hospitals with minor injuries. At least six buses have been centered, and those that suffered injuries have been mainly the organizers of the event, they added.
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