Left parties slam bid to stoke communal tensions in Tamil Nadu

Five Left parties connected Tuesday powerfully condemned what they termed arsenic attempts by the BJP and different Hindutva forces to make communal discord successful Tamil Nadu by raking up a contention astir spiritual sites connected Thirupparankundram Hill successful Madurai district.

In a associated statement, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, CPI (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party and All India Forward Bloc alleged that the BJP had sought to task the elevation location to 3 temples, a dargah and past Jain caves arsenic the “Ayodhya of the South”. “Seeking to extract governmental payment successful Tamil Nadu, BJP leaders, successful February this year, labelled the tract arsenic the “Ayodhya of the South, brought successful radical from outside, and attempted to provoke an incident. They besides utilized societal media to vitiate the ambiance and sow discord,” the Left parties said. 

The connection criticised the caller bid delivered by Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court permitting a petitioner to airy the Karthigai Deepam atop a British-era survey pillar adjacent to the Sikandar Badusha Dargah. The Left parties said the ruling ignored past judgments, humanities records and the Places of Worship Act, 1991, and undermined the State government’s authorization connected instrumentality and order.

Commending the radical of Madurai and the DMK authorities for resisting communal mobilisation, the parties accused the AIADMK of siding with “communal elements”. They besides condemned decease threats issued to Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan by Hindutva groups.

Calling upon antiauthoritarian and secular-minded citizens to cull “divisive politics”, the connection said specified moves were aimed astatine diverting attraction from the Modi government’s “assault connected livelihoods and law rights”.

The connection was signed by CPI(M) person M.A. Baby, CPI’s D. Raja, CPI(ML) Liberation’s Dipankar Bhattacharya, RSP’s Manoj Bhattacharya and AIFB’s G. Devarajan.