Hindu outfits decry CPI(M) stand on Padmanabhaswamy temple assets

On the suggestion to entrust the temple administration to a managing committee by freeing it from the trust run by Travancore royal family,Rajasekharan said such a scenario would lead to politicising of the temple affairs.

Hindu organisations would strongly resist any move to declare the temple properties as public assets since it would lead to their misappropriation and alienation,he said.

Disclosing CPI(M)’s official stand on the temple issue for the first time,Vijayan had on Monday suggested formation of a broad-based managing set-up for the temple on the lines of the Guruvayur temple managing committee.

He had also said though the party considered the huge wealth of the temple as public assets,the question of how they should be handled in future should be addressed through democratic debate and processes.