Flaws in Sabarimala could have been avoided

The failure to control the crowd of devotees at Sabarimala in a manner that aroused fear of disaster is a blatant failure on the part of the administrators. All this could have been avoided if the necessary arrangements had been made in advance. It was only by the grace of Lord Ayyappa that the uncontrollable crowd did not lead to a major disaster. The incompetence of the government and the Devaswom Board could not be more clearly understood by the people. Many devotees collapsed after waiting for darshan for more than eight hours without even getting drinking water. Some groups of devotees from Tamil Nadu did not perform darshan and went to Pandalam, saw Thiruvabharanam, offered their Irumudikettu and returned. The group that returned disappointed included forty Kanni Ayyappas, including