PATHANAMTHITTA: Travancore Devaswom Board President K Jayakumar responded about the rush at Sabarimala, calling it the ‘biggest ever’ he has witnessed in his life. The holy hill is now swarmed by lakhs of devotees who chose alternate paths through the forest to reach the Sannidhanam. Many devotees ended up in long queues for over 18 hours before reaching the sanctum sanctorum.

K Jayakumar:

“We have advised devotees who arrived at Pamba not to climb the hills due to the rush. About twenty queue complexes have been prepared from Marakkoottam to Saramkuthi. However, the purpose of these has not been implemented. It is not the police's fault. The police say that people are not entering the queue complexes. This was prepared earlier as part of the master plan. Arrangements have been made to p

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