Amit Shah's remarks on Sabarimala are an attack on the apex court and the Constitution: Pinarayi Vijayan

"The statements of BJP President Amit Shah in Kannur are an attack on Supreme Court and constitution. His assertion that courts must limit themselves to easily implementable judgments conveys a disinterest to protect the fundamental rights guaranteed by our Constitution," Vijayan tweeted.

BJP chief Amit Shah on Saturday said his party will stand with the people arrested during the recent protest over the Sabarimala Temple issue.

Shah said Left government in the state was misusing the issue to target the BJP and the RSS workers.

"Left government in Kerala has mishandled the Sabarimala issue & arrested around 2,000 supporters of the BJP, RSS & its affiliates," Shah said.

Shah made the announcement while addressing a rally at Kannur in Kerala.

" The police crackdown is a communist plot against temples. But we want to assure the people of Kerala that BJP stands with them like rock," he said.

Meanwhile, Ashram of Swami Sandeepananda Giri, who had supported the Supreme Court's verdict which allowed entry of menstruating women in Kerala's Sabarimala Temple, was attacked by some unknown assailants on Saturday, media reports said.

Two cars and a two-wheeler which belonged to the ashram, which is situated at Kundamankadavu in Thiruvananthapuram, were set ablaze by the assailants.

A day after Kerala's Sabarimala Temple was shut without the entry of a single menstruating woman, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has come down hard upon Hindu, right-wing organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), blaming it for not allowing women to enter the shrine, media reports said.

Vijayan was quoted by Times Now, "They (attackers) had been monitoring the movement of these women minute by minute, in order to perpetrate the coordinated attacks. All this is part of the Sangh Parivar’s strategy to turn the temple into a warzone." 

Reiterating the Kerala government's commitment to implement the top court's order, Vijayan said: "The Kerala government had made it clear in front of the Supreme Court that it will implement the verdict. The government had arranged all facilities. Neither the government nor the police tried to block the devotees. The RSS tried to turn SabarimalaTemple into a war zone." 

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