Protests Broke Out In Kerala Over Mismanagement At Sabarimala Shrine

Massive protests broke out in Kerala over the mismanagement at the Sabarimala temple. The protests came a day after an 11-year-old girl died after falling unconscious amid the trek to the Lord Ayyappa shrine.

The shrine is witnessing an extremely high number of pilgrims. Many of them had to wait for over 18 hours for Darshan. Some of them jumped the barricades, which led to a stampede-like situation.

CM Pinarayi Vijayan asked officials to bring in checks to control the situation without causing inconvenience to the pilgrims. The officials decided to reduce the virtual queue booking limit by 10,000. This increased the new maximum to 80,000 pilgrims per day. The darshan timing has also been extended by another hour.