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Chauvinists block roads and attack police in India's Sabarimala temple row
Protestors block traffic after reports of two women of menstruating age entering the Sabarimala temple, one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, today
CHAUVINIST protesters blocked roads and pelted police with stones in Kerala today after police escorted two women to worship in the Sabarimala temple.
The women would have been covered by a ban on women of menstruating age entering the temple that was overturned by India’s Supreme Court last September.
Kerala’s Communist-led government’s determination to enforce the court ruling and allow women access has led to clashes with supporters of the Hindu nationalist BJP of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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