Lakhs of women lined up across Kerala’s 14 districts on Tuesday to form a human wall as part of the state government’s ‘vanitha mathil’ or women’s wall. The wall was organised by the CPI(M)-led LDF government and community outfits backing its stand on the entry of women at the Sabarimala temple.
Although the wall was envisaged as a counter to the Sangh Parivar campaign against the entry of women of all ages at Sabarimala temple following the Supreme Court verdict, the CPI(M) has managed to project the event as a statement of “progressive Kerala”.