Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS wanted to turn the Sabarimala hill shrine into "a war zone". The opposition BJP in the state and its ideological mentor have allegedly been organising protests against the Supreme Court order that ended the centuries-old ban on women of reproductive age and allowed them to offer prayers at the Sabarimala temple.