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‘Save Sabarimala’ Protests To Hurt Kerala’s Revenues? Temple Hundis Filled With Inscriptions Instead Of Money
Members of Sabarimala Ayyappa Seva Samajam (SASS) take part in a protest against the Supreme Court verdict on the entry of women of all ages into the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa Temple (Biplov Bhuyan/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Protests have taken a different stride in Kerala after devotees, especially women took to the streets, protesting against the Supreme Court ruling abolishing the centuries-old practice of restricting menstruating women from entering the shrine.
Devotees across Kerala have started a new mode of agitation where devotees refused to put their offerings in the Hundis of Devaswom (Government administered) temples.
Interestingly, reports from Kerala suggests that the Hundis, instead of money is getting filled with paper slips inscribed with 'Swami Saranam We Need Justice'.
The Mahadeva Temple in Aluva which is famous for mass ancestral worship or 'pithru tharpanana' was reported to have hundis filled paper bits containing inscriptions urging the authorities to save the temple and its traditions.
The organisers of the movement is reported to have plans to take the campaign to all temples administered by the Devaswom Board as a protest against the Kerala Government's haste to implement the Supreme Court ruling.
RSS and Congress among others have also slammed the communist government for its undue haste in pursuing the ruling, hurting the sentiments of millions of devotees across India.
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