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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Thursday sought to antagonistic the United Democratic Front's (UDF) run rhetoric that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) had struck a mutually beneficial woody with the Bharatiya Janata Party successful cardinal Assembly constituencies successful Kerala.
Mr. Vijayan posted connected his Facebook leafage a 2006 photograph showing the Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan lighting a lamp successful beforehand of a representation of Hindutva ideologue M.S. Golwalkar who served arsenic the 2nd Sarsanghchalak (Chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to situation the UDF narrative.
Mr. Vijayan asked Mr. Satheesan to expound connected what “clandestine deal” with the Sangh Parivar compelled him to wage homage to Golwalkar astatine a nationalist lawsuit organised by the RSS to observe the utmost right-wing Hindutva ideologue’s 100th commencement anniversary.
Mr. Vijayan said that, erstwhile questioned astir his attendance astatine the RSS event, Mr. Satheesan covered his tracks by claiming that the photograph was of a antithetic relation successful 2013. (The Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s [CPI(M)] societal media handles regularly broadcast the photograph to formed aspersions connected Mr. Satheesan’s credentials. Mr. Satheesan has countered the CPI(M)’s portrayal of him arsenic a surreptitious RSS protagonist by stating that helium attended the merchandise of a publication by RSS thinker P. Parameswaran successful Thrissur, with the proviso that the precocious Chief Minister and seasoned CPI(M) person V.S. Achuthanandan had released the publication successful Thiruvananthapuram.)
Before 2006 polls
Mr. Vijayan said secular radical successful Kerala were waiting for a lucid reply from Mr. Satheesan. He noted that the event’s timing (in February 2006) had electoral import. He said Mr. Satheesan offered flowers and stood successful supplication successful beforehand of Golwalkar’s representation successful the run-up to the 2006 Assembly elections. Mr. Vijayan noted that the RSS had staged the lawsuit astatine the Manakkapady School grounds successful Mr. Satheesan’s constituency successful Paravur.
Mr. Vijayan said Hindu Aikya Vedi State president’s assertion (in 2022) that the RSS had aided Mr. Satheesan’s triumph successful the 2001 and 2006 elections successful the Paravur constituency had formed uncertainty successful the minds of voters astir Mr. Satheesan’s secular and statedly anti-RSS stance.
Mr. Vijayan said Mr. Satheesan had repeatedly sidestepped questions connected the latter’s dalliance with the RSS and sought to obfuscate the narration done misleading statements.
“People cannot beryllium blamed for reasoning that Mr. Satheesan’s genuflection successful beforehand of the RSS leader’s photograph was a bid to unafraid Sangh Parivar votes. Kerala is waiting to perceive from Mr. Satheesan,” Mr. Vijayan added.
