Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 28 -- The row over the invitation to Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin for the Global Ayyappa Summit by Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan has snowballed. The Kerala Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated that the Ayyappa bhakts of Kerala cannot be insulted any longer.

"It is our party's stated position that we believe that the Ayyappa bhakts of Kerala cannot be insulted any longer, and we will not allow CPM (Communist Marxist Party)

to do again what it had done before," said Chandrasekhar on Thursday.

"Cases were registered against the Ayyappa bhakts, and many were assaulted by the police and put in jail. The entire tradition of Sabrimala was threatened by the CPM government under Pinarayi Vijayan. W...