CPI(M) accuses Congress of unleashing street violence to hide the latter’s worsening internal dissensions

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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretariat connected Friday (October 17, 2025) accused the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) of unleashing unit connected the streets to re-direct nationalist attraction from the latter’s “internal dissensions and flailing governmental fortunes” successful the important predetermination year. 

CPI(M) State caput M.V. Govindan told a quality league that the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee’s (KPCC) latest reorganisation had widened the factional fissures successful the party. 

Infighting successful Congress

He said the All India Congress Committee’s (AICC) constitution of jumbo committees to accommodate hundreds of persons locked successful the perennial “rat race” for organisational posts has spawned much factional feuding and insidious resentment against the nationalist leadership. He alleged that the Youth Congress reorganisation had rendered the outfit profoundly divided on factional lines.

“The grievance-ridden utterances of leaders constituent to the profound and seemingly irreconcilable infighting successful the Congress and its affiliates”, helium said. 

Mr. Govindan said the beleaguered Congress enactment sought impermanent solace successful thoroughfare unit to flight its governmental woes. 

He accused Congress person Shafi Parambil, MP, of orchestrating unit against CPI(M) activists, instrumentality enforcers and Students Federation of India (SFI) workers successful Perambra successful Kozhikode recently. 

He said Congress workers attacked the section panchayat president for exposing Mr. Shafi’s effort to instrumentality recognition for the completion of Life Mission Housing projects, the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s flagship homelessness eradication and poorness alleviation scheme, successful the district.

Mr. Govindan accused the Congress of assaulting SFI activists for sweeping assemblage and assemblage elections successful the Kozhikode district. 

“The Congress workers led by the MP attacked the constabulary with sticks and state bombs. The constabulary exercised utmost restraint contempt the brazen provocation,” helium said. 

Hijab controversy

Mr. Govindan accused the Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan and the Congress’s tacit allies, the Jamaat-e-Islami Kerala, and the “Islamist” organisation’s governmental arm, the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), of rendering the headscarf (hijab) contented centred astir the privately managed St Rita’s School astatine Palluruthy successful Ernakulam. 

“General Education Minister V. Sivankutty had rightfully upheld the Muslim miss students’ close to look of spiritual state arsenic guaranteed by the Constitution. Mr. Sivankutty had besides warned schoolhouse authorities, the PTA, the elected representatives and students’ parents against allowing the contention to backslide into societal friction,” helium said. 

Published - October 17, 2025 07:13 p.m. IST

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