A day after the BJP warned that CPI(M) and Kerala government would face consequences under constitutional provisions over the recent violence in the wake of the entry of two women of menstruating age at Sabarimala temple, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan hit back on Sunday, saying that the BJP national leadership should ask its rank and file to end violence if that party has an iota of allegiance to the Constitution and commitment to the people. 
In a Facebook post, Vijayan said the state government was discharging its Constitutional responsibility by implementing the Supreme Court order (on entry of young women at Sabarimala). “It is strange that those who are trying to create violence to torpedo the implementation of the Supreme Court verdict are threatening the government that it would face consequences under constitutional provisions. Threatening a government which is implementing its Constitutional responsibility is against the Constitution,” he wrote.