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Congress moving committee subordinate Ramesh Chennithala connected Sunday (February 8, 2026) issued an unfastened missive addressed to economist Amartya Sen, historiographer Romila Thapar, World Food Prize Laureate Sakunthala Thilsted, erstwhile Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam person Kanimozhi, appealing to them to reconsider their information successful the International Conference connected Development and Democracy being organised by the Kerala authorities connected February 15 astatine Thiruvananthapuram.
He said that the conference, happening up of the Assembly elections, appears little an world forum and much a cautiously choreographed effort aimed astatine reclaiming motivation legitimacy for an incumbent authorities whose grounds connected antiauthoritarian freedoms, organization integrity, and nationalist accountability is nether sustained disapproval and progressively viewed arsenic authoritarian.
In the unfastened letter, Mr. Chennithala states that helium is penning not arsenic a partisan governmental voice, but arsenic a acrophobic national and legislator who has agelong admired the distinguished scholarship, nationalist contributions, and principled committedness to antiauthoritarian values represented by the invitees. He emphasises that it is precisely due to the fact that of the immense motivation and intelligence authorization associated with their beingness that helium felt compelled to code them publically aft media reports indicated their statement to enactment successful the conference.
He warns that the information of globally respected intelligence figures, irrespective of intent, is apt to beryllium projected arsenic an endorsement of the incumbent regime. According to Mr. Chennithala, images, selective quotations, and curated excerpts volition beryllium circulated to make the content that starring planetary minds o.k. of the government’s claims connected improvement and democracy, thereby masking the lived realities experienced by galore citizens of Kerala. He states that the governmental inferior of specified information lies successful generating motivation validation and run worldly for the ruling dispensation’s re-election effort.
