‘തന്ത്രിയെ പുറത്താക്കി ശബരിമല മലയരയർക്ക് തിരിച്ചു നൽകണം’: മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിക്ക് സംഘടിത പരാതി

ഭരണഘടനാ അവകാശങ്ങളെ നിഷേധിച്ചു എന്ന് ചൂണ്ടികാട്ടി ശബരിമല തന്ത്രിയെ തൽസ്ഥാനത്ത് നിന്ന് നീക്കണമെന്നും ശബരിമല ക്ഷേത്രം മലയരയർക്ക് തിരിച്ചു കൊടുക്കണം എന്നും ആവശ്യപ്പെട്ട് 200 -ൽ പരം വ്യക്തികളും സംഘടനകളും ചേർന്ന് ഒപ്പ് വെച്ച സംഘടിത പരാതി മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിക്ക് നൽകി. സ്വാമി അഗ്നിവേശ്, മേധാപട്കർ, കാഞ്ച ഇലയ്യ, തീസ്റ്റ സെതൽവാദ്, അരുണാ റോയ്, ആനന്ദ് പട്വര്‍ദ്ധന്‍ തുടങ്ങി ഇരുനൂറിലധികം വ്യക്തികളും പ്രമുഖ  സംഘടനകളുമാണ് സംഘടിത പരാതിയിൽ ഒപ്പു വെച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്.

“2018 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 28 ലെ ചരിത്ര പരമായ സുപ്രീം കോടതി വിധിയെ തുടർന്ന് ബിന്ദുവും കനകദുർഗയും ജനുവരി 2 ന് ശബരിമലയിൽ പ്രവേശിച്ചു കൊണ്ട് ചരിത്രം നിർമിച്ചു. എന്നാൽ സ്ത്രീ പ്രവേശനത്തെ തുടർന്ന് മേൽ ശാന്തി ശുദ്ധിക്രിയ നടത്തിയത് മൂലം ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ചരിത്രത്തിൽ ഇതേ ദിവസം ഇരുണ്ട ദിവസമായി മാറിയിരിക്കുന്നു. പത്തിനും അൻപതിനും ഇടയിൽ പ്രായമുള്ള സ്ത്രീകൾക്ക് ശബരിമല അയ്യപ്പ ക്ഷേത്രത്തിൽ വിലക്ക് ഏർപ്പെടുത്തുന്നത് തൊട്ടുകൂടായ്മയുടെ വകഭേദമാണെന്ന് ജസ്റ്റിസ്: ഡി വൈ ചന്ദ്രചൂഡ് ചരിത്രപരമായ വിധിയിൽ നിരീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു. ‘മതത്തിന് സ്ത്രീയുടെ ആരാധനാ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യം നിഷേധിക്കാനാകില്ല’ അദ്ദേഹം പറയുന്നു.

ശബരിമലയിൽ ശുദ്ധിക്രിയ ആചരിച്ചത് സുപ്രീം കോടതി വിധിയുടെ ലംഘനമാണെന്നും ഭരണഘടനാ വിരുദ്ധമാണെന്നും വ്യക്തമാണ്. അതുകൊണ്ട് തന്ത്രിയെയും മേൽശാന്തിയേയും ആ സ്ഥാനത്തു നിന്ന് നീക്കണമെന്നും, ഇന്നും ബ്രാഹ്മണിക്കൽ മൂല്യങ്ങളിൽ ഉറച്ചു നിന്നു കൊണ്ട് ഈ ശുദ്ധിക്രിയ നടത്തിയത് ഭരണഘടനാ മൂല്യങ്ങൾക്കെതിരാകയാൽ അവർക്കെതിരെ നിയമനടപടി കൈക്കൊള്ളണമെന്നും ഞങ്ങൾ ആവശ്യപ്പെടുന്നു. മാത്രമല്ല ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിന്റെ തുടക്കത്തിൽ ശബരിമലയിൽ ബ്രാഹ്മണർ ആധിപത്യം സ്ഥാപിക്കുന്നതിനു മുൻപ് ആചാരപരമായ അവകാശങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന ആദിവാസി വിഭവങ്ങൾക്ക് അവകാശം തിരികെ കൊടുക്കണം എന്നും ഞങ്ങൾ ആവശ്യപ്പെടുന്നു.” മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിക്ക് സമർപ്പിച്ച സംഘടിത പരാതിയിൽ പറയുന്നു. പരാതിയുടെ ഓരോ കോപ്പിവീതം രാഷ്ട്ര പതിക്കും, ചീഫ് ജസ്റ്റിസിനും, കേരള ഗവർണർക്കും സമർപ്പിച്ചു. പരാതിയുടെ പൂർണ രൂപം താഴെ.

To

Shri Pinarayi Vijayan Chief Minister of Kerala

CC To:

President of India, Chief Justice of India, Governor of Kerala

Over 200 women’s activists, dalit activists, adivasi activists, human rights groups, social organisations, cultural personalities and well known citizens demand the dismissal of the priests in Sabarimala over violation of constitutional rights and return the shrine to adivasis.

Sir,

Adv. Bindu and Kanakadurga made history on January 2, 2019 by entering the Sabarimala temple , a right accorded to them, by the historic Supreme Court verdict given on 28 September 2018. This day will also go down as a dark day in the history of India when the Tantris and Melshanthi (headpriest) of the Sabarimala temple conducted a ‘purifying puja’.

In the historic judgment Justice D.Y Chandrachud observed that the practice to ban entry to women between the ages of ten and fifty at the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala is “a form of untouchability”. He observed “Religion cannot be cover to deny women the right to worship……To treat women as children of a lesser God is to blink at constitutional morality.” Justice Chandrachud also said that “exclusion of women is a violation of right to liberty, dignity and equality….. Exclusion of women because she menstruates is utterly unconstitutional.”

Article 17 of Constitution of India says that “Untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any disability arising out of Untouchability shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law.” Article 17 of Constitution of India is the only Absolute right of the Indian constitution. The purification ceremony carried out by the Tantri in Sabarimala is a clearly criminal act as it stands in violation of Article 17, which confers an absolute right to all Indian citizens against the practice of untouchability, without exceptions or relaxations. No Indian citizen as per the Indian Constitution can be declared impure' oruntouchable’.’ It is clear that the purification ceremony performed at Sabarimala is unconstitutional and violates the Supreme Court judgment. Therefore we demand that the Tantris and Melashanthi of Sabarimala should be dismissed from their position and must be prosecuted as their action is against constitutional morality

Since this purification ceremony happened according to the values of Brahmanical patriarchy, we also demand that the Brahmin Tantris should be debarred from their hereditary rights over Sabarimala temple and the worship rights at Sabarimala be given back to Adivasis who were the customary custodians of Sabarimala until the Brahmins took control of the Sabarimala temple in the early 20th Century. We also demand that the Tantri status should be abolished and the Melshanthi should be reinstated to the Adivasis.

We appeal to make necessary steps to enforce community rights, resource rights and facilitate environmental protection of the forests around Sabarimala as well as Pampa river as per the Forest Rights Act.

Signatories:

1. Swami Agnivesh, Swami Agnivesh ,AryaSamaj Leader , Chairperson, Bonded labour Liberation Front .
2. Medha Patkar, NBA, NAPM
3. Kancha Ilaiah, Writer, Academic, Dalit Activist
4. TeestaSetalvad, Writer, Human Rights Activist
5. Aruna Roy, MKSS
6. Anand Patwardhan, Film Maker
7. Ram Puniyani. Writer, Retd. Professor, IIT
8. Satchidanandan, Writer, Poet, Former Secretary of SahityaAkademi
9. Sandeep Pandey, Former Visiting Professor, IIT, Social Activist
10. Harsh Mander
11. S. Parasuraman, Former Director, TISS
12. Tirumurugan Gandhi, May 17 Movement, Tamil Nadu
13. Lubnasarwath, General secretary, Socialist party( India), Telangana, Hyderabad
14. Guru Moorthy,  Socialist Party(India)- Bangalore
15. Radhika, independent legal researcher
16. Henri ,Executive Director, People’s Watch
17. Manohar, Human Rights Defenders Alert India
18. Denzil Fernandes, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi
19. Abdul Mabood, Director, SNEHI -Healthy Minds. A Healthy India, New Delhi
20. Apoorvanand, Delhi University
21. Nivedita Menon, JNU
22. Shabnam Hashmi, Social Activist, New Delhi
23. Jolly Chirayath, Actress, Activist
24. ArchanaPadmini- curator, actress
25. Vidhu Vincent -filmmaker
26. Sruthi Namboothiri- filmmaker
27. Muktha Deedi Chand-filmmaker
28. Sajitha Madathil-actress
29. Deedi Damodaran-script writer,filmmaker
30. Jeevakj- filmmaker
31. Asha Achy Joseph- filmmaker
32. Shiny T Rajan- actress
33. Miriam –
34. Sudha KF-filmmaker
35. Radhika Padmakumar- cameraperson
36. Revathy Sampath- actress
37. KaniKusruti-actress
38. Divya Gopinath-actress
39. Kavita Srivastava, PUCL
40. VidyaDinker, INSAF, Karnataka
41. Brinda Adige, Activist
42. Kritika A, Activist, Mediaperson
43. Mercy Kappen, Director, Visthar
44. Kamayanibalimahabal, feminist and human rights activist
45. Gerda Unnithan
46. Elizabeth Philip, Women’s Activist.
47. Tara Murali, Chennai.
48. Nafisa D’Souza
49. Indira Pancholi, MahilaJandhikarSamiti
50. Karuna Philip, MahilaJandhikarSamiti
51. Bhanwari Bai, MahilaJandhikarSamiti
52. Sister Carol Geeta, SaswikaSanghathan, Ajmer
53. Anuradha Marwah, Ajmer Adult Education Association
54. Lata Kanchawaha, SURE
55. Tara Ahluwalia, MahilaEvamBalChetnaSamiti
56. Nisha Chauhan
57. Chaya Pachauli
58. Madhulika, PUCL
59. Maya Pandit
60. InduPrakash Singh
61. Ganga Gupta
62. Kalpana Kannabiran, Professor & Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad
63. Mridula Bajaj, Development Consultant
64. Anila George, Advocate, Ernakulam
65. V.S. Roy David-National Adivasi Alliance (NAA) Convener
66. J.P.Raju- President BudakattuKrishikaraSanghaKodagu District
67. K.N.Vittala President BudakattuKrishkaraSanghaChickmagalore District
68. Venkataswamy President BudakattuKrishikaraSanghaPeriyapatna Mysore.
69. National AdivasiAndolana(NAA)
70. Rajya Moola Adivasi Vedike
71. Budakattu Krishikara Sangha Kodagu
72. Budakattu Krishikara Sangha Mysore,
73. Budakkatu Krishikara Sangha Periyapatna Taluk Mysore
74. Budakattu Krishikara Sangha Chickmagalore
75. Rajya Soliga Abhivruddi Sangha
76. Hassan JillaAdivasi Hasalara Sangha
77. Iruliga Kshemabhivruddi Sangha(IAKS)
78. Betta kurubara Paramparika Sangha.
79. Adivasi Yuvajana Vikasana Samithi (AYVS),Wayanad
80. Asangatitha Vanitha Thozhilali Union (AVTU)Wayanad
81. Forum of Deserted Wives-STHREEJWALA,Wayanad
82. BODI AND AGAMALAI ADIVASI PALIYAR FEDERATION (BAAPF)
83. Renganathan State convenor Tribal associations for Fifth Schedule campaign TN
84. Gunasekaran General Secretary TamilagaadivasiammippugalinKuttammaippu TN
85. Thangaraj State honorary president ST peoples munetranalasangam  Kollihills.
86. Venkadesan State President TN palangudivivasayegalsangamJawdhu hills
87. Shivashanthakumar Humane Trust KodaikanalTamilnadu
88. Shiva Shankar, Chennai Mathematical Institute.
89. Mohan and S.Devika, Advocates, Chennai
90. Andrew Sesuraj. M, Dept of Social Work, Loyola College,Chennai
91. Ravi Nitesh, Engineer, Social Activist, Member- Civicus International
92. Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil. Indian Institute of Management, Trichy.
93. Sandeep Pattnaik, Researcher
94. Lalit Vachani, Film Maker
95. Harish Chandra IAS, Bharat Jan GyanVigyanSamiti
96. Jai Sen, Researcher, Editor, New Delhi
97. Bharti Ali, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights.
98. Kumar Shailabh, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights.
99. Enakshi Ganguly, Founder, Adviser, HAQ Centre for Child Rights, New Delhi
100. R.Chandramohan, Devakottai
101. Dr Walter Fernandes, Senior Fellow, North Eastern Social Research Centre
102. Andrew Sesuraj. M, Dept of Social Work, Loyola College, Chennai
103. Ramkiran, SWRC, Tilonia
     104.Noratia, SWRC, Tilonia
     105.Arvind, Urmul Network
     106.Narendra Gupta, Prayas

107. Irfan Engineer, All India Secular Forum

108.Wilfred D’Costa, INSAF

109.Dr. Cameron Ahmad, Brampton ON, Canada

110.S Karthikeyan, Santa Clara, California , USA, Convener Ambedkar King Study Circle, California , USA.

111.Anjali Monteirro, TISS, Mumbai

112.Madhumita Dutta, Researcher

113.Natasha Khan, Advocate, Chattisgarh

114.Shiva Shantakumar

115.D.N. Reddy, Hyderabad

116.Prashant Paikray, Anti-POSCO Movement, Odisha

117.E.P. Menon

118.Magline, President, Theeradesa Vanitha Federation

119.Hamida, Secretary, Theeradesa Vanitha Federation

120.Dr. Anand Teltumbde, civil rights activist with CPDR, Maharashtra

121.Madhu Bhaduri, Ambassador of India (Retd)

122.Gabrielle Dietrich, NAPM

123.Stan Swamy, Jharkhand

124.Society for integrated development of tribals[SIDT] Kodaikanal.

125.Yemuna Sunny, Ekalavya, Madhya Pradesh

126.Yogesh Diwan, Social Activist, Madhya Pradesh

127.Biju Negi, BeejBachaoAndolan, Uttarakhand

128.Asit Das, Researcher, Delhi

129. Arjun, PDFI, Delhi
130. Dr.George Mathew, Chairman, Institute of Social Sciences
131. Walter Fernandes, Writer, Researcher

132.PradeepEsteves, Context India, Bengaluru

133. Chand Peer, Indian Social Institute, Bangalore

134.Kiran Kamal Prasad, JEEVIKA – JeetaVimukti Karnataka.

135.K.P. Jayashankar, TISS, Mumbai

136.Aloysius s.j., Social Researcher, IDEAS, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

137.Dr. Prof. Saradakkuty, Writer, Women activist

138.Prasad Chacko, Social worker, Ahmedabad

139.Sandeep Pattnaik, Researcher

140.Vira Sathidar, Actor and Writer

141.Aurobindo Ghose, Advocate, Human Rights Activist, Peoples’ Rights

Organization (PRO)

142.Arun Khote, PMARC

143.Amit Bhaduri

144.Prafulla Samantra, Lok Shakti Abhiyan

145.Dr. N. Bhattacharya, Former Employee of Delhi University.

146.Rajendran Samiappen

147.Neeraj Jain

148.Anita Cheria, Open Space, Bangalore

149Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar, Theologian, Peace-Justice Activist

150.Ambassador K.P Fabian (Retd)

151.GeetaSeshu, Independent Journalist and co-founder, Free Speech Collective

152.Priti Gulati Cox, Artist

153.Ananya Gaur, Singer, Musician.

154.Anvar Ali, Poet

155. Lata Singh, PUCL

156.Shabnam Aziz, PUCL

157.Harsh Kapoor, independent researcher

158.William Stanley, Social Activist

159.Subendu Dasgupta

160. Atindriyo Chakraborty, Advocate and Researcher, Kolkata
161. Dr. Y. SrinivasaRao, Assistant Professor

162.Dr. Prem Singh, Dept. of Hindi, University of Delhi

163. Tridib reeves

164.PushpaAchanta, Agriculturist

165.SubhashMendhapurkar

166.ShobhaAggarwal, Adovocate and member, PIL Watch Group

167.Dr. P. S. Sahni, Member, Aids BhedbhavVirodhiAndolan

168.Dr Koshy AV, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jazan

University,Saudi Arabia

169.Tushar Kamble, Instrumentation Engineer

170.Nidhin Sowjanya, IT Professonal, Bangalore

171.Kuldip Chand, Punjab

172.Kabir Deb, Author and Poet

173. Ajay TG, Film Maker

174.Dr. Goldy M George, Founder, Dalit MuktiMorcha, Chhattisgarh

175.Leo Saldhana, Environmental Support Group

176.Binu Mathew, Editor, Counter Currents

177. SatyaSagar, Writer, Public Health Activist

178.Fr. Cedric Prakash, Human Rights Activist

179.Cynthia Stephen, Independent Researcher and Policy analyst; Founder, DAWNS

180.Dinanath Keshav Manohar

181.Ganshyam Shah

182.Valson Thampu

183. Arun Kumar, Malcom S. Adiseshiah Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.

184.Hiren Gandhi, Darshan Organisation, Gujarat

185.Dr. Saroop Dhruv

186.Dr. Renuka Pamecha, Women’s Rehabilitation Group

187.Dr. Pawan Surana, Rajasthan University Women’s Association

188.Dr. Laad Kumari Jain, Rajasthan University Women’s Association

189.Dr. Asha Kaushik, Rajasthan University Women’s Association

190.Nisha Sidhu, National Federation Indian Women

191.Bharat, Vishakha, Women’s Research

192.Janasadhana, Odisha

193.Prem Krishan Sharma, PUCL/ Academi for Socio Legal Studies

194. Kailash Kumbhakar, Academi for Socio Legal Studies
195. Nishat Hussein, National Women’s Welfare Society
196. Komal Srivastava, Bharat VigyanSamiti
197. Mamta Jaitley, Vividha
198. Sumitra Chopra, AIDWA
199. KusumSaiwal, AIDWA
200. Rakhi, CFAR
201. Vijay Lakshmi Joshi, PUCL
202. Y. SrinivasaRao
203. Malti Gupta, RUWA, NFIW
204. Suman Devathiya, All India Dalit MahilaManch, Rajasthan
205. T. Saju
206. Sathish Samuel, Bangalore
207. Anitha Mathur, Azad Foundation
208. Deepak Kalra, UMANG]
209. Minakshi, APARAJITA
210. Shubha Jindel, PUCL
211. Pradnya Deshpande, Psychologist
212. Dr S Faizi, Ecologist
213. Raj Kumar Dogra, NFIW
214. Deba Ranjan, Documentary film maker and Human rights activist
215. Inba, SCM India
216. Ramesh Asher, Film Maker
217. Bharath Bhushan Mamidi, Centre for Action Research & People’s Development, Hyderabad.
218. Gerda Unnithan, Kejri Health Trust, RUWA
219. Adv, A. John Vincent, Vice President, PUCL, Madhurai
220. Akhil Chowdhari, Lawyer, PUCL
221. Nesar Ahmed, BARC
222. ChayaPachauli, Centre for Health and Equity, Jaipur
223. Nirja Mishra, Academic
224. Pritam Pal, Women’s Studies and Public Health Consultant
225. Alaka Rao
226. RN Jha, Patna
227. Rabin Chakraborty
228. Mustafa Desamangalam, Film Maker, Writer
229. Baburaj, Film Maker
230. Gopi, Film Editor
231. K.P. Sasi, Film Maker, Cartoonist, Writer.
232. Maya Pandit
233. Meeta Singh, PUCL, Foundation for Dignity of Girl Child
234. AshaKaira, Children and Woman Welfare Society
235. Shobita Rajgopal, Women Studies Consultant, Jaipur
236. Kanchan Mathur, Women Studies Consultant
237. K. Lakshmi, Public health researcher, Hyderabad
238. Sheelu, Women’s collective.
239. Bhanumathi Kalluri, Dhaatri Trust
240. C R Neelakandan, Social Activist
241. Madhu Bhushan, Women’s rights activist-researcher, Bangalore
242. Kirity Roy (MASUM)
243. Joya Roy, Institute of Social Sciences