Thiruvananthapuram: Minister for Devaswom and Electricity Boards Kadakampally Surendran on Sunday said Prayar Gopalakrishnan, President of Travancore Devaswom Board, is a hardcore communalist.
Talking about the TDB President’s behavior at the meeting with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to discuss the developmental activities at the Sabarimala shrine, Surendran said his antics were to invite media attention. “He later expressed his readiness to resign from the post of TDB president as he might have felt guilty,” he said.
The minister said that the president had disrespected the CM by behaving rudely.
In the review meeting convened by the CM on Thursday to discuss various facilities at Sabarimala temple, Prayar Gopalakrishnan had refuted all the suggestions put forth by Pinarayi Vijayan.
Saying that his words indicated staunch communalism, Surendran said that the president should not intervene in the decision on lifting the ban on entry of women of menstruating age at the temple.
He added the government would not ask Gopalakrishnan to step down from the post.