കോഴിക്കോട്: ശബരിമലയിലെ യുവതി പ്രവേശനത്തിന് പിന്നാലെ നടയടച്ച് ശുദ്ധിക്രിയ നടത്തിയ നടപടി ഭരണഘടനാ അവകാശങ്ങളുടെ ലംഘനമാണെന്ന് ചൂണ്ടിക്കാട്ടി മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിയ്ക്ക് പരാതി. 200 -ല്‍ പരം വ്യക്തികളും സംഘടനകളും ചേര്‍ന്ന് ഒപ്പ് വെച്ച സംഘടിത പരാതിയാണ് മുഖ്യമന്ത്രിക്ക് നല്‍കിയത്.

സ്വാമി അഗ്‌നിവേശ്, മേധാപട്കര്‍, കാഞ്ച ഇലയ്യ, തീസ്റ്റ സെതല്‍വാദ്, അരുണാ റോയ്, ആനന്ദ് പട്‌വര്‍ദ്ധന്‍ തുടങ്ങി ഇരുനൂറിലധികം വ്യക്തികളും പ്രമുഖ സംഘടനകളുമാണ് സംഘടിത പരാതിയില്‍ ഒപ്പു വെച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത്.

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ശബരിമല തന്ത്രിയെ തല്‍സ്ഥാനത്ത് നിന്ന് നീക്കണമെന്നും ശബരിമല ക്ഷേത്രം മലയരയര്‍ക്ക് തിരിച്ചു കൊടുക്കണം എന്നും പരാതിയില്‍ പറയുന്നു.

“”2018 സെപ്റ്റംബര്‍ 28 ലെ ചരിത്രപരമായ സുപ്രീംകോടതി വിധിയെ തുടര്‍ന്ന് ബിന്ദുവും കനകദുര്‍ഗയും ജനുവരി 2 ന് ശബരിമലയില്‍ പ്രവേശിച്ചു കൊണ്ട് ചരിത്രം നിര്‍മിച്ചു. എന്നാല്‍ സ്ത്രീ പ്രവേശനത്തെ തുടര്‍ന്ന് മേല്‍ ശാന്തി ശുദ്ധിക്രിയ നടത്തിയത് മൂലം ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ചരിത്രത്തില്‍ ഇതേ ദിവസം ഇരുണ്ട ദിവസമായി മാറിയിരിക്കുന്നു. പത്തിനും അന്‍പതിനും ഇടയില്‍ പ്രായമുള്ള സ്ത്രീകള്‍ക്ക് ശബരിമല അയ്യപ്പ ക്ഷേത്രത്തില്‍ വിലക്ക് ഏര്‍പ്പെടുത്തുന്നത് തൊട്ടുകൂടായ്മയുടെ വകഭേദമാണെന്ന് ജസ്റ്റിസ്: ഡി വൈ ചന്ദ്രചൂഡ് ചരിത്രപരമായ വിധിയില്‍ നിരീക്ഷിക്കുന്നു. “മതത്തിന് സ്ത്രീയുടെ ആരാധനാ സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യം നിഷേധിക്കാനാകില്ല” അദ്ദേഹം പറയുന്നു.

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ശബരിമലയില്‍ ശുദ്ധിക്രിയ ആചരിച്ചത് സുപ്രീം കോടതി വിധിയുടെ ലംഘനമാണെന്നും ഭരണഘടനാ വിരുദ്ധമാണെന്നും വ്യക്തമാണ്. അതുകൊണ്ട് തന്ത്രിയെയും മേല്‍ശാന്തിയേയും ആ സ്ഥാനത്തു നിന്ന് നീക്കണമെന്നും, ഇന്നും ബ്രാഹ്മണിക്കല്‍ മൂല്യങ്ങളില്‍ ഉറച്ചു നിന്നു കൊണ്ട് ഈ ശുദ്ധിക്രിയ നടത്തിയത് ഭരണഘടനാ മൂല്യങ്ങള്‍ക്കെതിരാകയാല്‍ അവര്‍ക്കെതിരെ നിയമനടപടി കൈക്കൊള്ളണമെന്നും പരാതിയില്‍ പറയുന്നു.

ഇരുപതാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിന്റെ തുടക്കത്തില്‍ ശബരിമലയില്‍ ബ്രാഹ്മണര്‍ ആധിപത്യം സ്ഥാപിക്കുന്നതിനു മുന്‍പ് ആചാരപരമായ അവകാശങ്ങള്‍ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന ആദിവാസി വിഭവങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് അവകാശം തിരികെ കൊടുക്കണം എന്നും പരാതിയിലുണ്ട്.

പരാതിയുടെ ഓരോ കോപ്പിവീതം രാഷ്ട്ര പതിക്കും, ചീഫ് ജസ്റ്റിസിനും, കേരള ഗവര്‍ണര്‍ക്കും സമര്‍പ്പിച്ചു.

പരാതിയുടെ പൂര്‍ണ്ണരൂപം:

To

Shri Pinarayi Vijayan Chief Minister of Kerala

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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:

Swami Agnivesh, Swami Agnivesh ,AryaSamaj Leader , Chairperson, Bonded labour Liberation Front .
Medha Patkar, NBA, NAPM
Kancha Ilaiah, Writer, Academic, Dalit Activist
TeestaSetalvad, Writer, Human Rights Activist
Aruna Roy, MKSS
Anand Patwardhan, Film Maker
Ram Puniyani. Writer, Retd. Professor, IIT
Satchidanandan, Writer, Poet, Former Secretary of SahityaAkademi
Sandeep Pandey, Former Visiting Professor, IIT, Social Activist
Harsh Mander
S. Parasuraman, Former Director, TISS
Tirumurugan Gandhi, May 17 Movement, Tamil Nadu
Lubnasarwath, General secretary, Socialist party( India), Telangana, Hyderabad
Guru Moorthy, Socialist Party(India)- Bangalore
Radhika, independent legal researcher
Henri ,Executive Director, People”s Watch
Manohar, Human Rights Defenders Alert India
Denzil Fernandes, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi
Abdul Mabood, Director, SNEHI -Healthy Minds. A Healthy India, New Delhi
Apoorvanand, Delhi University
Nivedita Menon, JNU
Shabnam Hashmi, Social Activist, New Delhi
Jolly Chirayath, Actress, Activist
ArchanaPadmini- curator, actress
Vidhu Vincent -filmmaker
Sruthi Namboothiri- filmmaker
Muktha Deedi Chand-filmmaker
Sajitha Madathil-actress
Deedi Damodaran-script writer,filmmaker
Jeevakj- filmmaker
Asha Achy Joseph- filmmaker
Shiny T Rajan- actress
Miriam –
Sudha KF-filmmaker
Radhika Padmakumar- cameraperson
Revathy Sampath- actress
KaniKusruti-actress
Divya Gopinath-actress
Kavita Srivastava, PUCL
VidyaDinker, INSAF, Karnataka
Brinda Adige, Activist
Kritika A, Activist, Mediaperson
Mercy Kappen, Director, Visthar
Kamayanibalimahabal, feminist and human rights activist
Gerda Unnithan
Elizabeth Philip, Women”s Activist.
Tara Murali, Chennai.
Nafisa D”Souza
Indira Pancholi, MahilaJandhikarSamiti
Karuna Philip, MahilaJandhikarSamiti
Bhanwari Bai, MahilaJandhikarSamiti
Sister Carol Geeta, SaswikaSanghathan, Ajmer
Anuradha Marwah, Ajmer Adult Education Association
Lata Kanchawaha, SURE
Tara Ahluwalia, MahilaEvamBalChetnaSamiti
Nisha Chauhan
Chaya Pachauli
Madhulika, PUCL
Maya Pandit
InduPrakash Singh
Ganga Gupta
Kalpana Kannabiran, Professor & Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad
Mridula Bajaj, Development Consultant
Anila George, Advocate, Ernakulam
V.S. Roy David-National Adivasi Alliance (NAA) Convener
J.P.Raju- President BudakattuKrishikaraSanghaKodagu District
K.N.Vittala President BudakattuKrishkaraSanghaChickmagalore District
Venkataswamy President BudakattuKrishikaraSanghaPeriyapatna Mysore.
National AdivasiAndolana(NAA)
Rajya Moola Adivasi Vedike
Budakattu Krishikara Sangha Kodagu
Budakattu Krishikara Sangha Mysore,
Budakkatu Krishikara Sangha Periyapatna Taluk Mysore
Budakattu Krishikara Sangha Chickmagalore
Rajya Soliga Abhivruddi Sangha
Hassan JillaAdivasi Hasalara Sangha
Iruliga Kshemabhivruddi Sangha(IAKS)
Betta kurubara Paramparika Sangha.
Adivasi Yuvajana Vikasana Samithi (AYVS),Wayanad
Asangatitha Vanitha Thozhilali Union (AVTU)Wayanad
Forum of Deserted Wives-STHREEJWALA,Wayanad
BODI AND AGAMALAI ADIVASI PALIYAR FEDERATION (BAAPF)
Renganathan State convenor Tribal associations for Fifth Schedule campaign TN
Gunasekaran General Secretary TamilagaadivasiammippugalinKuttammaippu TN
Thangaraj State honorary president ST peoples munetranalasangam Kollihills.
Venkadesan State President TN palangudivivasayegalsangamJawdhu hills
Shivashanthakumar Humane Trust KodaikanalTamilnadu
Shiva Shankar, Chennai Mathematical Institute.
Mohan and S.Devika, Advocates, Chennai
Andrew Sesuraj. M, Dept of Social Work, Loyola College,Chennai
Ravi Nitesh, Engineer, Social Activist, Member- Civicus International
Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil. Indian Institute of Management, Trichy.
Sandeep Pattnaik, Researcher
Lalit Vachani, Film Maker
Harish Chandra IAS, Bharat Jan GyanVigyanSamiti
Jai Sen, Researcher, Editor, New Delhi
Bharti Ali, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights.
Kumar Shailabh, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights.
Enakshi Ganguly, Founder, Adviser, HAQ Centre for Child Rights, New Delhi
R.Chandramohan, Devakottai
Dr Walter Fernandes, Senior Fellow, North Eastern Social Research Centre
Andrew Sesuraj. M, Dept of Social Work, Loyola College, Chennai
Ramkiran, SWRC, Tilonia
Noratia, SWRC, Tilonia
Arvind, Urmul Network
Narendra Gupta, Prayas
Irfan Engineer, All India Secular Forum
Wilfred D”Costa, INSAF

Dr. Cameron Ahmad, Brampton ON, Canada

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

.Anjali Monteirro, TISS, Mumbai

Madhumita Dutta, Researcher

Natasha Khan, Advocate, Chattisgarh

Shiva Shantakumar

D.N. Reddy, Hyderabad

Prashant Paikray, Anti-POSCO Movement, Odisha

E.P. Menon

Magline, President, Theeradesa Vanitha Federation

Hamida, Secretary, Theeradesa Vanitha Federation

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

Madhu Bhaduri, Ambassador of India (Retd)

Gabrielle Dietrich, NAPM

Stan Swamy, Jharkhand

Society for integrated development of tribals[SIDT] Kodaikanal.

Yemuna Sunny, Ekalavya, Madhya Pradesh

Yogesh Diwan, Social Activist, Madhya Pradesh

Biju Negi, BeejBachaoAndolan, Uttarakhand

Asit Das, Researcher, Delhi

Arjun, PDFI, Delhi
Dr.George Mathew, Chairman, Institute of Social Sciences
Walter Fernandes, Writer, Researcher
PradeepEsteves, Context India, Bengaluru

Chand Peer, Indian Social Institute, Bangalore
Kiran Kamal Prasad, JEEVIKA – JeetaVimukti Karnataka.

K.P. Jayashankar, TISS, Mumbai

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

Dr. Prof. Saradakkuty, Writer, Women activist

.Prasad Chacko, Social worker, Ahmedabad

Sandeep Pattnaik, Researcher

.Vira Sathidar, Actor and Writer

Aurobindo Ghose, Advocate, Human Rights Activist, Peoples” Rights

Organization (PRO)

.Arun Khote, PMARC

.Amit Bhaduri

Prafulla Samantra, Lok Shakti Abhiyan

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

Rajendran Samiappen

.Neeraj Jain

.Anita Cheria, Open Space, Bangalore

Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar, Theologian, Peace-Justice Activist

.Ambassador K.P Fabian (Retd)

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

Priti Gulati Cox, Artist

Ananya Gaur, Singer, Musician.

Anvar Ali, Poet

Lata Singh, PUCL
Shabnam Aziz, PUCL

Harsh Kapoor, independent researcher

William Stanley, Social Activist

Subendu Dasgupta

Atindriyo Chakraborty, Advocate and Researcher, Kolkata
Dr. Y. SrinivasaRao, Assistant Professor
Dr. Prem Singh, Dept. of Hindi, University of Delhi

Tridib reeves
.PushpaAchanta, Agriculturist

SubhashMendhapurkar

ShobhaAggarwal, Adovocate and member, PIL Watch Group

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

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

University,Saudi Arabia

.Tushar Kamble, Instrumentation Engineer

.Nidhin Sowjanya, IT Professonal, Bangalore

Kuldip Chand, Punjab

.Kabir Deb, Author and Poet

Ajay TG, Film Maker
Dr. Goldy M George, Founder, Dalit MuktiMorcha, Chhattisgarh

.Leo Saldhana, Environmental Support Group

Binu Mathew, Editor, Counter Currents

SatyaSagar, Writer, Public Health Activist
Fr. Cedric Prakash, Human Rights Activist

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

.Dinanath Keshav Manohar

Ganshyam Shah

.Valson Thampu

Arun Kumar, Malcom S. Adiseshiah Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.
Hiren Gandhi, Darshan Organisation, Gujarat

.Dr. Saroop Dhruv

Dr. Renuka Pamecha, Women”s Rehabilitation Group

Dr. Pawan Surana, Rajasthan University Women”s Association

Dr. Laad Kumari Jain, Rajasthan University Women”s Association

Dr. Asha Kaushik, Rajasthan University Women”s Association

Nisha Sidhu, National Federation Indian Women

Bharat, Vishakha, Women”s Research

Janasadhana, Odisha

Prem Krishan Sharma, PUCL/ Academi for Socio Legal Studies

Kailash Kumbhakar, Academi for Socio Legal Studies
Nishat Hussein, National Women”s Welfare Society
Komal Srivastava, Bharat VigyanSamiti
Mamta Jaitley, Vividha
Sumitra Chopra, AIDWA
KusumSaiwal, AIDWA
Rakhi, CFAR
Vijay Lakshmi Joshi, PUCL
Y. SrinivasaRao
Malti Gupta, RUWA, NFIW
Suman Devathiya, All India Dalit MahilaManch, Rajasthan
T. Saju
Sathish Samuel, Bangalore
Anitha Mathur, Azad Foundation
Deepak Kalra, UMANG]
Minakshi, APARAJITA
Shubha Jindel, PUCL
Pradnya Deshpande, Psychologist
Dr S Faizi, Ecologist
Raj Kumar Dogra, NFIW
Deba Ranjan, Documentary film maker and Human rights activist
Inba, SCM India
Ramesh Asher, Film Maker
Bharath Bhushan Mamidi, Centre for Action Research & People”s Development, Hyderabad.
Gerda Unnithan, Kejri Health Trust, RUWA
Adv, A. John Vincent, Vice President, PUCL, Madhurai
Akhil Chowdhari, Lawyer, PUCL
Nesar Ahmed, BARC
ChayaPachauli, Centre for Health and Equity, Jaipur
Nirja Mishra, Academic
Pritam Pal, Women”s Studies and Public Health Consultant
Alaka Rao
RN Jha, Patna
Rabin Chakraborty
Mustafa Desamangalam, Film Maker, Writer
Baburaj, Film Maker
Gopi, Film Editor
K.P. Sasi, Film Maker, Cartoonist, Writer.
Maya Pandit
Meeta Singh, PUCL, Foundation for Dignity of Girl Child
AshaKaira, Children and Woman Welfare Society
Shobita Rajgopal, Women Studies Consultant, Jaipur
Kanchan Mathur, Women Studies Consultant
K. Lakshmi, Public health researcher, Hyderabad
Sheelu, Women”s collective.
Bhanumathi Kalluri, Dhaatri Trust
C R Neelakandan, Social Activist
Madhu Bhushan, Women”s rights activist-researcher, Bangalore
Kirity Roy (MASUM)
Joya Roy, Institute of Social Sciences

 

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