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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that those who stoke communal schisms, including by othering minorities and furthering individuality politics, betray the humanist teachings of societal reformer Sree Narayana Guru.
Speaking during the 93rd Sivagiri pilgrimage lawsuit astatine Varkala, Thiruvananthapuram, connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025), Mr. Vijayan said communally divisive messaging invariably played into the hands of revanchist forces seeking to recreate the oppressive and hierarchical caste-based feudal nine that Guru’s teachings helped dismantle.
Mr. Vijayan’s code appeared to transportation governmental value against the backdrop of caller disapproval wrong the Left Democratic Front (LDF) that the governmental enforcement had trod softly astir SNDP Yogam wide caput Vellapally Natesan, who had drawn aggravated disapproval from Muslim societal organisations for allegedly alienating and demonising minorities.
Notably, the Communist Party of India (CPI) had attributed the LDF’s mediocre showing successful northbound Kerala successful the caller section assemblage elections successful portion to the ruling front’s nonaccomplishment to unequivocally condemn and region itself from Hindu societal organisation leaders “spewing communal hate” against minorities.
Mr. Vijayan’s Sivagiri code besides appeared to beryllium an oblique critique of the SNDP Yogam’s governmental arm, the BDJS, which is an NDA state successful Kerala, against the backdrop of the CPI(M)’s post-2024 Lok Sabha canvass uncovering that a surge successful caste individuality authorities successful Hindu backward classes had eroded the LDF’s strongholds, including successful Alappuzha, successful cardinal Kerala. The CPI(M) had urged the SNDP Yogam enactment to close people “from within” and instrumentality to its founding ideals.
(Mr. Natesan, who was connected the signifier with Mr. Vijayan, had earlier stated that his remarks were against the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and not the Muslim assemblage arsenic a whole.)
‘Anathema to Guru’s teachings’
Mr. Vijayan said caste individuality authorities was anathema to the Guru’s teachings. “When permitting the pilgrimage successful 1928, Guru had explicitly told his disciples not to render the spiritual travel to Sivagiri an Ezhava caste-centric lawsuit and stressed its humanist and progressive philosophical core,” helium said.
Mr. Vijayan noted that Guru eschewed superstition successful favour of a technological temper and gave primacy to education, societal welfare, entrepreneurship, organisation, and humanism implicit individualistic spiritual pursuits. He said Guru’s teachings laid the instauration chromatic for the Left agrarian question that ended feudalism and serfdom successful Kerala.
“Society should beryllium mindful that the successors of the revanchist forces, which opposed the Guru’s teachings, were seeking to retard the social, economic, and acquisition advancement achieved done societal struggles by marginalised sections by incrementally supplanting crushed with superstition, subject with pseudoscience, and past with myths successful the nationalist caput to haul Kerala backmost to the acheronian ages”, helium said.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramiah, Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham Trust (SNDST) president Sachithanandan Swamy, AICC wide caput K.C. Venugopal, and BJP person Sobha Surendran were among those present.
