Kerala CPI(M) uses Bengaluru “anti-Muslim” demolition drive to ideologically equate Congress with Sangh Parivar

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] has sought to gully an ideological equivalence betwixt the Congress and the Sangh Parivar by comparing the Karnataka Government’s demolition thrust targeting indigent Muslim colonies adjacent Yelahanka successful Bengaluru with akin “bulldozer operations” against marginalised minorities in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled North Indian States. 

The CPI(M)’s run against the Karnataka Government’s demolition thrust seeks to undermine the Congress’s lasting among Muslims successful Kerala, which arguably contributed importantly to the United Democratic Front (UDF)’s bully showing successful the section assemblage polls. 

An insider said the CPI(M) besides seeks to enactment the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a cardinal UDF ally, successful a spot connected the Congress’s “anti-Muslim bulldozer raj” successful Karnataka.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan launched a broadside against the United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition past week, expressing daze and symptom astatine a Congress authorities replicating the BJP exemplary of “bulldozer raj” successful neighbouring Karnataka.

Notably, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Sivakumar dismissed Mr. Vijayan’s concern, attributing it to the former’s deficiency of consciousness of the crushed world successful Bengaluru.

However, AICC wide caput K.C. Venugopal posted connected X (formerly Twitter) that helium spoke 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.

The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) nationalist president, M.A. Rahim, who led a fact-finding ngo to the demolition site, told reporters connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) that the Left younker organisation would surface the aftermath of the demolition of Fakeer Colony and Waseem Layout crossed Kerala and organise State-wide protestation meetings. 

“The abbreviated movie would archer the communicative of Shravani, a young parent nearing her term, shivering successful the acold nether a expanse of tarpaulin beside her demolished home. It would besides archer the communicative of Syed Mastan, an ageing thoroughfare vocalist who mislaid his location days earlier his lad Said Mubarak’s matrimony connected January 2,” helium added. 

Mr. Rahim said the run would item Sanjay Gandhi’s “bulldozer raj” against Muslims during the Emergency and Mr. Shivakumar’s “brazen admiration for the RSS anthem (Gana Geetham), which helium rendered successful the Karnataka Assembly.