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Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State Secretary M.V. Govindan has accused Leader of the Opposition, V.D. Satheesan, of “imperilling Kerala’s secular polity by brazenly stoking number communalism.”
Mr. Govindan told reporters successful Thiruvananthapuram that Mr. Satheesan bolstered Hindutva forces by seeking to legitimise the “Islamist politics” of the Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind (JIH)-Kerala. He accused Mr. Satheesan of sacrificing communal amity astatine the altar of electoral expediency for a “few votes”.
Mr. Govindan pointed retired an alleged dichotomy betwixt the JIH’s refusal to wantonness its pursuit of an Islamic State successful India, governed by Islamic instrumentality alternatively than the Constitution, and Mr. Satheeshan’s refrain that the organisation has abandoned its founding principles to integrate itself with the governmental mainstream.
Mr. Govindan said Mr. Satheesan has emerged arsenic a marque ambassador and apologist for the JIH, thereby fueling bulk communalism and individuality authorities successful society. “The JIH Emir has repeatedly reasserted the organisation’s Islamist idealist moorings, belying Mr. Satheesan’s claims”, helium said.
PM Modi’s visit
The CPI(M) slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sojourn to Thiruvananthapuram to applaud the BJP’s power of the Municipal Corporation arsenic an workout successful fume and mirrors.
“People of Thiruvananthapuram consciousness cheated. The BJP, which had emerged arsenic the azygous largest enactment successful the Corporation Council with nary bulk to talk of, had promised voters that Mr. Modi would marque immoderate big-ticket announcement for the metropolis if the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) fared good astatine the hustings. Instead, Mr. Modi made a governmental code and flew back. He pulled the aforesaid disappearing enactment aft visiting Wayanad landslide catastrophe spot and doing thing for the affected populace”, helium added.
Rapid rail
Mr. Govindan said the CPI(M) welcomes immoderate initiative, including that of “Metro Man” E. Sreedharan, to make a wide accelerated transport strategy successful Kerala to heighten connectivity.
“Unlike the Congress, the LDF is for development. The authorities made Vizhinjam larboard a world contempt thoroughfare violence, attacks connected constabulary stations, and wanton unit initiated by the Congress to thwart the project. Now, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has launched the second, third, and 4th phases of the planetary transhipment port’s expansion,” helium added.
