Kerala’s influential Sivagiri Madhom said on Thursday that “equal social justice” was yet to be achieved in the State and that Brahminical dominance was still prevalent in relation to the priesthood in major temples there.
Only those who belonged to the Brahmin community can apply for the post of priests in well-known shrines like the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple, Guruvayur Sreekrishna Temple, Chottanikkara Bhagavathi Temple, Vaikom Mahadeva Temple, and so on, it said.
The Sivagiri Madhom is a major spiritual centre of the State’s numerically strong Ezhava community.
