Telegraph file photoThe BJP, which had hoped to build the Sabarimala temple issue in Kerala as Ayodhya 2.0 before the Lok Sabha elections, on Saturday night called off its relay hunger strike on January 20 as the protest was “not entirely successful”. On Sabarimala, party chief Amit Shah had made speeches to boost the protest by right-wing agitators who attacked women attempting to enter the shrine. For more than a year, the BJP and the Left parties in Kerala have traded attacks, most violently in Kannur. In such a backdrop, when the party heard the first rumbles of protest against the Sabarimala apex court judgment, it sniffed political opportunity. At the venue of the Sabarimala protest on Saturday, Kerala BJP president P.S.

Source: The Telegraph January 20, 2019 04:52 UTC