The Kerala Government on Thursday set apart Rs 100 crore in the 2019-20 budget for the Travancore Devaswom Board, which manages the Sabarimala temple that faced an unprecedented a dip in revenue due to the recent floods and violent protests over the women’s entry issue.
Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac presented the annual Budget for the year 2019-20 in which he lashed out at the “vicious propaganda” unleashed by some “politicians” that the Govt was “siphoning off the money” of the Sabarimala temple. Isaac said that his Government would not allow anyone to ‘destabilise the Board by dissuading devotees from offering money”.