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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Monday slammed the Congress authorities successful Telangana for reportedly evicting arsenic galore arsenic 3,000 families from their legally owned houses astatine Velugumatla colony successful Khammam territory connected February 25. He has demanded a reply from the Congress enactment successful Kerala.
In a statement, Mr. Vijayan said the Telangana authorities had “besmirched” the bequest of Acharya Vinoba Bhave, person of the Bhoodan Movement, by demolishing the houses constructed and owned by beneficiaries of the voluntary onshore donation campaign.
(In the lack of meaningful onshore reform, the Bhoodan Movement successful the aboriginal 1950s had sought to trim landlessness and societal inequality by persuading affluent feudal landowners to donate a tiny information of their property to assistance the agrarian mediocre successful agrarian India.)
Mr. Vijayan said “government evictors, bolstered by a immense posse of constabulary and bulldozers,” descended connected Vinobha Nagar successful the aboriginal hours (on February 25) and rendered thousands stateless successful hours.
Mr. Vijayan said mainstream newspapers successful Kerala had “obfuscated the trespass connected civilian and spot rights successful instrumentality for a glut of pricey advertisements” from the Telangana government. The Congress’ nationalist enactment remained silent, helium said.
Mr. Vijayan alleged that the Congress successful Telengana had taken a leafage from the playbook employed by the party’s authorities successful Karnataka to evict Muslim working-class families from their homes astatine Yelahanka.
In a Facebook station successful December 2025, Mr. Vijayan had termed the bulldozing of Fakir Colony and Waseem Layout (Karnataka) “a shocking replay of the bulldozer raj unfairly targetting minorities successful Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled north-Indian States.”
Mr. Vijayan’s remarks had drawn crisp disapproval from Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who accused Mr. Vijayan of “unnecessary interference made without knowing the facts and an predetermination gimmick”, fixed the impending Assembly polls successful Kerala.
However, AICC wide caput K.C. Venugopal appeared to close Mr. Shivakumar immediately, successful an evident bid to negate the CPI(M)’s efforts to equate the Congress with the BJP authorities vis-à-vis minorities, chiefly Muslims.
Mr. Venugopal had posted connected X that helium had spoken to Mr. Shivakumar and conveyed the AICC’s superior interest that specified actions should person been undertaken with acold greater caution, sensitivity, and compassion, keeping the quality interaction astatine the centre.
Mr. Vijayan said the evicted families successful Bengaluru were inactive connected the thoroughfare and the Karnataka authorities had “done nothing” to rehabilitate them. In stark contrast, Kerala had acceptable a sterling illustration by rehabilitating the landslide-affected successful Wayanad, offering a exemplary of humanism.
