KOCHI: The BJP has decided to intensify its protest against the Supreme Court order that has taken out age restrictions for women in Sabarimala. BJP State chief P S Sreedharan Pillai said on Monday that a long march will be taken out to Secretariat under the aegis of NDA.

The march will begin on October 10 from Ayyappa’s birth place under the name Sabarimala Samrakshana yathra and end in front of the Secretariat on March 15.
Sreedharan Pillai alleged that the State government’s stand in Sabarimala issue, had created divides among Hindu believers.

“The government’s aim is to make political mileage out of the issue by dividing Hindus into different sects and using politics of suppression. The CPM’s aim is to destroy Sabarimala; they use police force to oppose the agitators. Instead of finding ways to resolve the issue, they are seeing the protestors as enemies. But the BJP and NDA seek to resolve the issue through consensus,” he said.