Thiruvananthapuram

An organisation of Lord Ayyappa devotees has expressed dissatisfaction with the ongoing SIT probe into the Sabarimala gold loss cases and urged the Kerala government to hand over the matter to the CBI.

Murugan R Selvan, the national president of the Sabarimala Ayyappa Seva Samajam (SASS), on Friday said that the Congress-led UDF was accusing the CPI(M) of being behind the gold loss and questioned why it was not, therefore, handing over the probe to the CBI.

Speaking to reporters here, Selvan said that Lord Ayyappa was watching everything and expressed hope that Chief Minister V D Satheesan will consider handing over the case to the central agency.

He said that he was not completely blaming the police, but it cannot resolve the issue.

He also highlighted the difficulties being faced by devotees during the Mandalakala-Makarvillakku pilgrimage season and claimed that many of them had return without darshan last year due to long waiting hours and poor crowd management.

Selvan asked what the new UDF government was doing to resolve these issues and urged that the CM and state Devaswom Minister K Muraleedharan visit Sabarimala during the pilgrimage season to see how the devotees suffer.

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He said that the government should form an expert committee to resolve the issues faced by the devotees.

The SASS national president also said that his organisation was ready to provide free travel and food for devotees if the government permits.