Sabarimala: Bindhu Ammini to go to SC against Kerala govt for refusing protection to women

Activist Bindu Ammini also said that she will support any woman who attempts to visit Sabarimala temple, irrespective of their politics.

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Activist Bindhu Ammini reiterated her stand that she will move the Supreme Court against the Kerala government for not providing police protection to women (between the age of 10 and 50) who wanted to climb the Sabarimala shrine.

If the government was unwilling to provide protection, then it should give that in writing, she demanded at a press meet held in Kottayam on Saturday.

Bindu, along with another woman named Kanaka Durga, had climbed the hill shrine on January 2 this year post the Supreme Court order in September 2018 allowing women of menstruating ages to offer prayers in the temple. The women were escorted by the police in mufti.

However, the Kerala government had changed its stance considerably now and has said that Kerala police will not give protection to any woman unless the court asks them to.

Speaking to the media at the Press Club in Kottayam, Bindhu said that the police or members of the Sangh Parivar preventing women from the trek amounts to contempt of court.

Bindhu rejected rumours and media reported that claimed that she will go to the shrine again on January 2, 2020.

"I have never said so. I may go again or may not. Women members of the Navothana (Renaissance) Kerala Kootayma have planned to go. I support all women who want to go to the temple, be it even Trupti Desai, irrespective of their politics," she said.

She slammed the Kerala government for not giving police protection and shirking away under the pretext that there was lack of clarity in the Supreme Court's latest judgment. The apex court on November 14 referred the Sabarimala issue to a larger seven-member bench but did not impose a stay on its September 2018 verdict.

"There is no lack of clarity in the recent ruling. Those who have lack of clarity should seek clarity. Instead, the government is trying to escape from the responsibility. All political parties are trying to make political mileage out of the Sabarimala issue, eyeing on their respective vote banks. The Left has fallen for the trap prepared by the Sangh Parivar. And the Sangh Parivar is trying to create riots using people who have no sense of history," she said.

On BJP state General Secretary K Surendran's allegation that minister AK Balan met Bindhu Ammini and the minister's denial on it, Bindhu clarified that she did go to the office, but the minister wasn't present at the time.

Bindhu tried to meet the minister to raise the issue of a music teacher sexually abusing tribal students in a residential school in Ettumanur in Kottayam.

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