Malabar Devaswom Board (MDB) has suspended its bid to take over the Kapliyangad Sree Bhagavathy Mandir near Vadakkekad, Thrissur, thanks to the stiff Opposition from the devotees and temple management.
The MDB officials had come to the temple premises to take over it during the early hours of February 29. They had come with maximum security cover, including a large number of police personnel, as well as arrangements like water cannons. But, temple committee members mobilised a large number of devotees, including women, immediately. The protesters resisted the takeover bid by sitting down on the floor and chanting bhajans.
MDB Executive Officer Ajin R Chandran said that he had come to take over the temple based on the High Court order. But, the temple managing committee president, Pramod, said that they have already filed an appeal before the Supreme Court against the High Court order. Secretary V Dhanesh said that some of the committee members were expelled following financial misappropriation a couple of years ago. Secretary added that according to RTI replies received, the expelled members are behind the complaints against them.
R V Babu, spokesman of the Sangh-inspired Hindu Aikya Vedi, said that this is the latest example of the CPM-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s attempts to bring all Hindu temples under its control. This is an usurpation of Hindu’s rights to worship.
R V Babu is absolutely right. Hindus’ past experience speak it out. Whether it is the attempt to break the Sabarimala temple tradition by facilitating the young women’s temple entry or political control of the Devaswoms and thereby temples, blasphemous comments against the Hindu Gods by A N Shemseer, the speaker of the State Assembly and the abundant encouragement to the SFI goons to exhibit the images of Hindu Gods in most obscene and objectionable manners, at the end of the day, CPM is hell-bent on demolishing the Hindu faith. Examples need several volumes.
