<p class="title">Sabarimala Ayyaappa temple will open for six days from November 12 to 17 for poojas for the month of Kumbam.</p>.<p class="title">This comes even as the Supreme Court decision on the review petitions on the entry of women in the age group of 10-50 years to the Sabarimala Ayyaappa temple in Kerala is still pending.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police is gearing up for another round of heavy deployment as there are high chances of more women in the 10-50 years age group turning up for darshan, especially since the matter is under crucial stages of the apex court review.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Ayyappa temple will open at 5 pm on February 12 and close at 10 pm on February 17.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is also scheduled to attend a public meeting of BJP workers at Pathanamthitta, the district in which the Ayyappa temple in situated, on February 14.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources said that Adityanath may even visit the Ayyappa temple as the temple would be open during those days. But his final schedule is still awaited.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It may be recalled that two women in their forties, Bindu Ammini and Kanaka Durga, were the first women in the 10-50 years age group to enter the Ayyappa temple after the top court lifted the years long ban on the entry of women in menstruating age.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kerala witnessed widespread violence following the entry of women. Several young women who tried to climb the temple were blocked by pilgrims.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, the stand taken by the Travancore Devaswom Board, which manages the temple, in favour of women's entry further triggered the differences among the board members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The board’s earlier stand was that the rituals of Sabarimala need to be protected and it would not amount to gender inequality.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But on Wednesday, the board firmly backed the lifting of the ban on women in the 10-50 years age group.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It even didn't seek time for implementing the Supreme Court order citing the lack of infrastructure for women at the hill shrine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The TDB president, a nominee of the ruling CPM, had openly expressed displeasure over this and said that he was ignorant of this stand.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But Devaswom Board Commissioner N Vasu and some members in the board were backing women's entry.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CPM leadership also openly backed the stand taken by the board in the court.</p>
<p class="title">Sabarimala Ayyaappa temple will open for six days from November 12 to 17 for poojas for the month of Kumbam.</p>.<p class="title">This comes even as the Supreme Court decision on the review petitions on the entry of women in the age group of 10-50 years to the Sabarimala Ayyaappa temple in Kerala is still pending.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police is gearing up for another round of heavy deployment as there are high chances of more women in the 10-50 years age group turning up for darshan, especially since the matter is under crucial stages of the apex court review.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Ayyappa temple will open at 5 pm on February 12 and close at 10 pm on February 17.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is also scheduled to attend a public meeting of BJP workers at Pathanamthitta, the district in which the Ayyappa temple in situated, on February 14.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources said that Adityanath may even visit the Ayyappa temple as the temple would be open during those days. But his final schedule is still awaited.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It may be recalled that two women in their forties, Bindu Ammini and Kanaka Durga, were the first women in the 10-50 years age group to enter the Ayyappa temple after the top court lifted the years long ban on the entry of women in menstruating age.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kerala witnessed widespread violence following the entry of women. Several young women who tried to climb the temple were blocked by pilgrims.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Meanwhile, the stand taken by the Travancore Devaswom Board, which manages the temple, in favour of women's entry further triggered the differences among the board members.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The board’s earlier stand was that the rituals of Sabarimala need to be protected and it would not amount to gender inequality.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But on Wednesday, the board firmly backed the lifting of the ban on women in the 10-50 years age group.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It even didn't seek time for implementing the Supreme Court order citing the lack of infrastructure for women at the hill shrine.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The TDB president, a nominee of the ruling CPM, had openly expressed displeasure over this and said that he was ignorant of this stand.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But Devaswom Board Commissioner N Vasu and some members in the board were backing women's entry.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CPM leadership also openly backed the stand taken by the board in the court.</p>