{"id":305763,"date":"2018-11-18T07:56:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T07:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305763"},"modified":"2018-11-18T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T07:56:15","slug":"sabarimala-row-kerala-bjp-protests-on-party-leaders-remand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sabarimala-row-kerala-bjp-protests-on-party-leaders-remand\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabarimala row: Kerala BJP protests on party leader&#8217;s remand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304437 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Sabarimala.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP unit in Kerala has called for a &#8220;protest day&#8221; on Sunday after a party leader was detained while he was trying to reach the Sabarimala temple on Saturday despite the police stopping him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the protesters blocked roads and highways in many parts of the state. Several BJP workers blocked the centre of the town of Thiruvalla.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kerala BJP&#8217;s general secretary K Surendran was detained on Saturday evening at the Nilakkal base camp after he was stopped from heading to the hill-top shrine of Lord Ayyappa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The police refused to allow K Surendran and his party workers and asked them to return. This led to a scuffle between the police and the BJP workers in Nilakkal, the base camp to Sabarimala. Surendran was later taken into protective custody as a &#8220;preventive measure&#8221; and shifted him to Chittar police station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surendran was produced before a magistrate on Sunday and remanded to 14-day judicial custody after he was charged with non-bailable offences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kerala had observed a 12-hour shutdown on Saturday against the arrest of a right-wing leader. KP Sasikala, the state president of Hindu Aikya Vedi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Sabarimala temple had opened on November 16 for the third time in a month for the two-month long pilgrim season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP unit in Kerala has called for a &#8220;protest day&#8221; on Sunday after a party leader was detained while he was trying to reach the Sabarimala temple on Saturday despite the police stopping him.\u00a0 According to the sources, the protesters blocked roads and highways in many parts of the state. Several BJP workers blocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[6696,9754,9755,3926],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305765,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305763\/revisions\/305765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}