The sanctum sanctorum of the hill temple was closed at 6.15 am after darshan by P Raghava Varma Raja, representative of the erstwhile Pandalam royal family, attached to the centuries-old shrine.
Controversy erupted in Kerala after the CPI(M)-led LDF government on Friday submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court claiming 51 women in menstrual age entered the Sabarimala temple during the ongoing annual pilgrimage season.
The Kerala High Court on Thursday dismissed an anticipatory bail plea filed by Malayalam actor Kollam Thulasi in a case against him for allegedly making provocative anti-women remarks during a Sabarimala protest organised by the BJP-led NDA in the state.
The temple town and the nearby places witnessed large-scale protests started by various Hindu groups after the Supreme Court verdict that allowed women of all ages to enter the temple that hitherto banned girls and women aged 10-50.
Sathasivam said, during the meeting, he discussed with Vijayan measures to address complaints on lack of basic amenities like drinking water, toilets and rest rooms at Nilackal, the base camp, and at Pampa en route to Sanidhanam.
The Supreme court decison comes amid heightening tensions all across Kerala over the apex court's judgment lifting the decade-old ban on women's entry to the Sabarimala shrine.
The situation turned tense in the area, where section 144 was clamped, as devotees gathered in large numbers at 'Valiya Nadapandhal' to protest against the woman's entry into the temple.
The temple's door are set to open on October 18 for the routine monthly puja.
The Constitutional Bench in a 4-1 judgement said that denial of entry to women to the shrine was "derogatory" to them.
The 5-judge constitution bench said banning entry of women into shrine is gender discrimination and the practice violates rights of Hindu women.
The five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, in its 4:1 verdict, said that banning the entry of women into the shrine is gender discrimination and the practice violates rights of Hindu women.
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, in its 4:1 verdict, said banning entry of women to Kerala's Sabrimala temple is gender discrimination and the practice violates rights of Hindu women.
Patriarchal notion cannot be allowed to trump equality in devotion, CJI Dipak Misra said while pronouncing the verdict ending the ban on entry of women inside Sabarimala temple in Kerala
Patriarchal notion cannot be allowed to trump equality in devotion, CJI Dipak Misra said while pronouncing the verdict ending the ban on entry of women inside Sabarimala temple in Kerala
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