The humiliating defeat in the recent parliament elections has prompted the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Kerala to review its policy on the women's entry at Sabarimala temple. The party-led Left coalition had faced a major debacle in the elections by reducing itself to one in the 20 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
According to a report on Manoramaonline, the state government led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has decided to drop its stern stand in implementing the Supreme Court order allowing women aged between 10 and 50 to enter the forest shrine. The decision was in the wake of the CPI(M)'s observation that it had lost even the traditional vote bank in the state.