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Cong. slams Shah’s remarks on SC verdict on Sabrimala

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By PTI Updated: Oct 28, 2018 11:23 pm

New Delhi, Oct. 28 (PTI): The Congress Sunday criticised BJP president Amit Shah’s remarks on the Supreme Court’s Sabarimala temple verdict, saying the ruling party’s goal was to first weaken and then finish institutions.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Shah’s remarks “insult intelligence of the institution and the electorate”. With the BJP and the RSS leading protests against the Supreme Court order to open the Sabarimala shrine to women of all age, BJP president Shah on Saturday said courts should desist from pronouncing verdicts which cannot be implemented.

“It is the goal of the BJP to first weaken institutions and then finish them…there is a long list, be it CBI, EC, CVC and the CIC…now same intervention has been made without understanding of law,” Singhvi told a press conference here.

He said the BJP has been “decimating” and “diluting” institutions to further its interests.
“It is an uninformed, loose, trivial comment which is an insult to the intelligence of the institution and the electorate,” he said.

Singhvi also dubbed the remarks of Uttar radesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that the SC should pronounce a verdict on the Ram temple matter too like Sabarimala as one lacking knowledge of law and the Constitution.

Claiming that the issue is of great significance as it is a matter of faith for the people of India, the UP CM said Saturday, “If Supreme Court can give judgement in the Sabarimala case, it should also give its order in Ram temple case. I request the court to do so.”

“He is holding a constitutional post. The remarks show a lack of understanding of law and the Constitution. The Supreme Court will lay down a road map on how the proceedings would go,” Singhvi said.

We will be with devotees when Sabarimala temple opens — BJP
The BJP will continue to stand by devotees opposed to the entry of all women to the Sabarimala temple, Kerala BJP President P.S. Sreedharan Pillai said on Sunday.
Pillai also announced a series of protests to ensure that Sabarimala’s uniqueness — keeping away women in the age group of 10 to 50 — was kept intact.

The temple closed after five days of monthly puja on October 22. It will now open at 5 p.m. on November 5 and close the next day at 10 p.m.
“We will be in full strength and will support the devotees’ wishes when the temple opens on the 5th,” Pillai told the media.

“The situation in Kerala is worse than the Emergency days,” he said. “People are being arrested at midnight just because they protested in a peaceful manner, fighting for the rights of the devotees of Lord Ayyappa.”

An estimated 3,345 protesters who prevented women from entering the Sabarimala temple have been arrested since October 26 while 517 cases have been registered at various police stations across the state.

Pillai said that across the country there were many temples dedicated to Lord Ayyappa but the temple at Sabarimala was unique.
He said he would stage a day-long protest outside the office of the Kerala Police chief. A ‘rath yatra’ will start from a temple in Kasargode on November 8 and reach Pathanamthitta – where the Sabarimala temple is located — on November 13.”

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By PTI Updated: Oct 28, 2018 11:23:40 pm
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