PATHANAMTHITTA: BJP state president V Muralidharan has said that preliminary steps for the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple has been completed. PM’s secretariat has already collected some details in this regard from the party state unit.
He was speaking after inaugurating the collectorate march organised by the party mandalam committee in protest against the neglect of Sabarimala pilgrimage by the UDF Goverwnment here on Monday. He said that though a formal announcement of the Prime Minister’s visit to Sabarimala was not made,the party was on a firm belief that Modi would visit the temple during the coming pilgrimage season. Muralidharan said that the party state leaders convinced the Prime Minister the importance of visiting Sabarimala temple, when he had visited the state earlier. “A detailed report, including the important points on the trekking route, will be submitted to the PM’s secretariat,” he said. Muralidharan said that the UDF Government is sabotaging the Sabarimala pilgrimage by not taking up repair works of the roads leading to the temple. The government has not spent even a single rupee for the road repair as against `65 crore sanctioned for the purpose during the last season. Muralidharan said that the party will launch panchayat-level campaigns across the state on Sabarimala pilgrimage, including the problems being faced by the pilgrims, from November 5 to 20. Muralidharan said that the UDF governments’s demand for declaration of Sabarimala temple as a national pilgrim centre was a mere political stunt. Though the government has been receiving over `10,000 crore as revenue from Sabarimala pilgrimage a year, the government failed to earmark adequate funds for basic facilities at the temple. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
