Two young women entered the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple in Kerala under police cover in the early hours of Wednesday, triggering anti-government protests across the State.
Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Chandran Unnithan, 55, a BJP worker, was killed when a protest march taken out by the Sabarimala Karma Samithi (SKS) in the palace town of Pandalam was pelt ed with stones by miscreants. He suffered a head injury and died later in hospital.
The women who were in their early 40s — Bindu from Kozhikode and Kanakadurga from Malappuram — reached the foothills around 1.30 a.m. at Pampa, from where they were escorted to the temple by plainclothes policemen.
CM conrms darshan
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan later conrmed the temple entry of Bindu and Kanakadurga. “Yes, they have had darshan.”
This story is from the January 03, 2019 edition of The Hindu.
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