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Senior CPI(M) person P. Jayarajan connected Tuesday criticised SNDP Yogam wide caput Vellapally Natesan for “standing connected 2 boats.”
As the wide caput of the SNDP, Mr. Natesan steered the Navodhana Samrakshana Samithi (Renaissance Protection Forum), which was constituted when the Left Democratic Front (LDF) was successful power. But immoderate of his statements person wounded the State’s secular consciousness, said Mr. Jayarajan, a State Committee subordinate of the CPI(M), urging the nine to fathom this dichotomy.
The remarks were made portion helium was speaking astir his latest book, Sanathanikalude Hindutva Vazhikal (The Hindutva Pathways of Sanatanis), astatine an event organised by Rachana, the taste helping of the Kerala Secretariat Employees Association.
Later, talking to The Hindu, Mr. Jayarajan said the Navodhana Samithi was formed to antagonistic the emergence successful communalism and the revival of moribund customs and traditions in Kerala society. “While steering it, Mr. Natesan inflicted heavy wounds connected Kerala’s secular psyche,” helium said. “Meanwhile, his lad Thushar Vellapally leads the BDJS, which is an state of the BJP. And Mr. Natesan’s wife, Preethi, seeks to whitewash the BJP candidates successful the elections,” Mr. Jayarajan pointed out.
He said Congress leaders who criticised Mr. Natesan during the elections aboriginal made a beeline for his house. “Ministers successful the Cabinet led by V.D. Satheesan, who said helium wouldn’t lounge astir the doorsteps of assemblage leaders, person done precisely that,” Mr Jayarajan said.
Community organisations, beryllium it the SNDP, NSS or Yogakshema Sabha, had played a relation successful Kerala’s societal reformation. But lately, these organisations have narrowed their absorption to preserving caste and assemblage interests.
Mr. Jayarajan said Hindutva forces have sought to represent the top of Kerala reformers, Sree Narayana Guru, arsenic a Hindu saint successful a calculated distortion of history. “It is undeniable that the SNDP Yogam founded by him played a captious relation successful Kerala’s renaissance. But successful aboriginal years, it was reduced to a community organisation by jettisoning its relation successful the renaissance.”
