Kluckey Amma cut-outs set on fire
Irate workers belonging to the CPI(M) and its frontal organisations like the SFI and Praja Natya Mandali on Friday pulled down the huge arches and cut-outs of Kalki and Amma Bhagavan put up here and made a bonfire of them. They were protesting against the alleged callous attitude of the Kalki Bhagavan Trust which resulted in the stampede leading to the death of five devotees and injuries to over 100 persons in the melee on Tuesday.
There was utter chaos in the sprawling ‘Oneness Temple’ complex when some four lakh devotees of the Kalki cult who converged at the complex for the consecration ceremony of the shrine pushed and jostled each other at a water point and scampered around in utter panic when the stampede broke outThey raised slogans against Kalki and Amma Bhagavan and demanded their immediate arrest holding them responsible for the ‘callous handling’ of the arrangements at the complex.
