After a fake report that said 51 women entered Sabarimala temple, the numbers were revised to 17. However, in his latest statement, Devaswom minister Kadakampally Surendran says only two women entered the shrine.
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala state government changed their statement on the number of women who entered the Sabarimala temple. In the Assembly meeting on Monday, Devaswom minister Kadakampally Surendran said that as per the report of the Sabarimala executive officer, only two women entered the shrine.
He also said that there is still no confirmation on whether the Sri Lankan native entered the shrine or not. As per the Kerala government's earlier reports, at least 51 women, under the age of 50, had entered the Sabarimala shrine in this season.
The Kerala government’s counsel submitted a list in the Supreme Court on January 18 in reply to a petition filed by Bindu and Kanakadurga seeking 24/7 police protection.
MyNation tried to contact these 51 women, who are said to have entered the shrine. Two of the men (not women), who responded to calls, agreed that they had entered the shrine. Calls to the remaining numbers were either met with no response or the numbers were not in service. The two, who attended the call, said they had entered the shrine with their friends and other devotees. The group did not comprise any woman.
However, it turned out that the state government's list submitted in the court was fake. The state government then asked the Kerala Police to clear the errors in the controversial list of women who entered the Sabarimala temple.
Then the Kerala Police sent a revised list, which brought down the number to 17 women who claimed to have entered the shrine during this season. However, according to latest reports, only two women entered the shrine.
Social media users have started ridiculing Pinarayi Vijayan over his government's list, which seems to always contain errors.
Ayyappa devotees and Hindu groups alleged that Vijayan's government started to receive severe backlash following his “evil decisions” with respect to the Sabarimala temple and indicated that the erroneous list bears testament to this.
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