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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has criticised the BJP-led Central government’s determination to contented postage stamp and a ₹100 coin celebrating the centenary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), calling it a “grave insult to our Constitution.”
In a station connected X, Mr. Vijayan slammed the Centre’s effort to “legitimise an organisation that abstained from the state struggle, promoting a divisive ideology that aligned with the assemblage strategy (of disagreement and rule)“.
He said the “national honour is simply a nonstop battle connected the representation of our existent state fighters and the secular, unified India they envisioned”.
Mr. Vijayan besides sounded a informing against the “perils posed by combative right-wing Hindu nationalism” to India’s secular polity connected Gandhi Jayanti Day connected Thursday (October 2, 2025).
In a Facebook post, Mr. Vijayan said that “Hindu majoritarian extremists had changeable Mahatma Gandhi dormant for defending secularism and democracy.”
“The fanatical assassins viewed Gandhian values arsenic a formidable ideological and governmental impediment to imposing their revanchist presumption of a homogeneous Hindu nation”, helium said.
Mr. Vijayan said Gandhi was “martyred for his thought of India arsenic a secular, inclusive and pluralistic nation.”
“It is connected the eve of Gandhi Jayanti that the Central authorities issued a stamp and a coin commemorating the 100th twelvemonth of enactment of the RSS, which the authorities had proscribed aft the Gandhi assassination”, helium said.
Mr. Vijayan said the RSS “feared adjacent the memory” of Mahatma Gandhi.
“The Central authorities is seeking to rewrite past by attempting to supplant Gandhi with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, an RSS ideologue who faced proceedings successful the Gandhi assassination case, arsenic the existent person of the Indian Independence movement”, helium stated.
Earlier, speaking astatine the 3rd decease day of the precocious Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State caput Kodiyeri Balakrishnan successful Kannur connected Thursday, Mr. Vijayan had successful beardown presumption flagged the “existential threat” posed by the RSS to “minorities and marginalised sections of society”.
“The RSS aspired for a Hindu theocracy which adhered to an oppressive caste strategy that perceived minorities, including linguistic minorities, Dalits, tribals and backward classes arsenic subaltern citizens of debased societal status. The RSS has borrowed a leafage from the German fascist person (Adolf) Hitler’s playbook and sought the annihilation of minorities, which it viewed arsenic treasonous 5th columnists for forging a Hindu totalitarian state”, helium said.
Mr. Vijayan said the ideological enactment betwixt the Congress and the RSS was progressively blurred. “An array of Congress leaders from the aboriginal days of the organisation had an affinity for RSS ideology. The profound ideological ambiguity successful the Congress successful defending secularism yet paved the mode for the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party successful erstwhile Congress-ruled States successful the country”, helium said.
