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Set up an independent Sabarimala Development Authority: BJP

By Our Staff Reporter

PATHANAMTHITTA, NOV. 2. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called upon the Government to set up an independent Sabarimala Development Authority (SDA) to ensure better basic amenities for the Ayyappa devotees at Sabarimala.

Addressing a press conference at Kozhencherry today, the BJP district president, A.G. Unnikrishnan, said that the party will launch an agitation demanding a separate administrative set up for the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, if the Government failed to do as stated by the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, during his recent visit to Sabarimala.

Mr. Unnikrishnan said that the proposed authority should be free of political intervention. The district authorities in Kottayam and Pathanamthitta, the representatives of the Travancore Devaswom Board and various Hindu organisations and the Tantri of Sabarimala should be the members of the proposed development authority.

Mr. Unnikrishnan said that the BJP would lay siege to the office of the Assistant Devaswom Commissioner at Aranmula on Thursday, demanding that the collection of toll from vehicles carrying pilgrims to Sabarimala be stopped immediately.

The State organising secretary of BJP, P.K. Krishnadas, will inaugurate the siege that begins at 8 a.m. on Thursday.

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