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Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan connected Friday (September 26, 2025) accused the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led authorities of giving abstraction to communal forces successful Kerala and reiterated that the UDF has taken up the governmental ngo of exposing alleged “hypocritical bhakti groups” associated with the Sabarimala controversy.
Addressing the media successful Kannur, helium said that portion assemblage organisations specified arsenic the NSS and the SNDP were escaped to prosecute their ain stand, the UDF’s governmental presumption was “grounded firmly successful defending secular values without compromise.”
Criticism of govt’s relation successful Sabarimala
Mr. Satheesan raised 3 large questions earlier the State authorities – whether it was consenting to amend the affidavit filed supporting the usurpation of rituals astatine Sabarimala, whether it would retreat thousands of cases registered against nama japa participants, NSS activists and governmental workers, and whether it would revoke pending cases registered earlier the Global Ayyappa Sanghamam.
He said the government’s “inaction for 9 years had near devotees deceived”, portion the UDF felt “duty-bound to exposure those who contiguous a maestro program for Sabarimala twelvemonth aft twelvemonth without existent improvement works.”
According to him, the Global Ayyappa Sanghamam “collapsed” organisationally.
He criticised the Devaswom Minister, alleging that the second was visibly excited aft speechmaking a connection from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath during the gathering.
Mr. Satheesan questioned what the CPI(M’)s absorption would person been if a UDF Minister had done the same, and asked however BJP workers would presumption specified a conduct.
Slams Pinarayi
He accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of aligning with leaders who dispersed hatred code and declared that the CPI(M) was allowing the BJP and right-wing forces to summation introduction into Kerala’s governmental sphere.
“There is nary uncertainty that Yogi Adityanath is simply a bully person of Pinarayi Vijayan,” Mr. Satheesan said, pledging to exposure what helium called “communalism misrepresented arsenic devotion.”
‘No dispute’
Reiterating that determination is “no dispute” with organisations specified arsenic the NSS and the SNDP, Mr. Satheesan said the UDF respected their state to instrumentality autarkic decisions and acknowledged the NSS’ enactment for “resisting communal infiltration.” At the aforesaid time, helium underlined that the UDF would “oppose some bulk and number communalism” without hesitation.
“Whoever speaks communally, we volition reason without looking astatine their faces. We volition not merchantability our secular positions for impermanent profit,” helium said, adding that the UDF had been committed to Kerala’s secular bequest crossed generations.
Accusing the CPI(M) of opportunism, Mr. Satheesan said that the enactment had for years appeased minorities earlier the past parliamentary elections and has present shifted to bulk appeasement, frankincense “lacking immoderate genuine committedness to secularism.”
He highlighted the “contradiction” of the CPI(M) erstwhile certifying the IUML arsenic secular portion present accommodating groups specified arsenic the Indian National League (INL) that had rejected the IUML’s secular tag.
Referring to flex boards of the Sabarimala lawsuit that lone displayed Mr. Vijayan and Devaswom Minister V.N. Vasavan alternatively of Lord Ayyappa, Mr. Satheesan dismissed the CPI(M)’s attack arsenic specified “political spectacle nether the guise of devotion.”
Mr. Satheesan confirmed that the UDF’s presumption connected these issues “remains unchanged for the parliamentary elections, aft them and successful times ahead.”
He insisted that Kerala was fundamentally secular and that some the older and the younger generations would rally down law values against divisive politics.
