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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is acting arsenic though helium is connected a ngo to fulfil the wishes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleged Ramesh Chennithala, elder Congress person and Permanent Invitee to the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Working Committee, connected Friday.
Addressing a property league astatine the Ernakulam District Congress Committee office, Mr. Chennithala described the CPI(M) and the BJP arsenic “allies”, claiming that “the BJP makes statements connected behalf of the Chief Minister and vice versa.”
He accused Mr. Vijayan of adopting “the British argumentation of disagreement and rule” successful an effort to “communally polarise” the radical of Kerala. Mr. Vijayan, helium said, appears to beryllium competing with the Prime Minister for “the apical spot successful communally dividing people.”
On Marad riots
Mr. Chennithala remarked that “a coiled should beryllium allowed to heal, but the Chief Minister is keeping it festering” by repeatedly invoking the Marad riots. “The Marad riots were among the astir unfortunate incidents successful Kerala’s history. To suggest that these would recur if the United Democratic Front returned to powerfulness is patently false. During Oommen Chandy’s five-year tenure, not a azygous communal riot occurred,” helium pointed out.
“It is present evident that appeasing majoritarian communalism is the CPI(M)’s governmental strategy for the 2026 State Assembly elections. Over the years, the CPI(M) has sought electoral gains by appeasing some majoritarian and number communalism. In the run-up to the past parliamentary elections, the Chief Minister repeatedly raised the contented of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) successful an effort to triumph number votes, but the radical of Kerala rejected this. Since then, helium has shifted tactics, present attempting to appease majoritarian communalism by organising events specified arsenic Global Ayyappa Summit. Is it befitting for an elected Chief Minister to deliberately disagreement the radical on communal lines? Will specified actions service the State’s interests?” Mr. Chennithala asked.
He further accused the Chief Minister of “laying the groundwork for the BJP’s growth” successful Kerala since 2016, citing the triumph of Suresh Gopi successful Thrissur during the 2024 parliamentary elections and the BJP’s triumph successful the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation successful the caller section assemblage polls.
“Now, the Chief Minister seems determined not to remainder until helium helps the BJP unafraid a fewer MLAs,” Mr. Chennithala said.
