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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Saturday slammed the Leader of the Opposition successful the Parliament, Rahul Gandhi, for accusing the Left Democratic Front (LDF) of being hand-in-glove with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whose authorities successful Chhattisgarh was liable for the “unjust incarceration” of 2 Kerala nuns connected “bigoted” charges of forced conversion and trafficking of tribal women successful July, 2025.
Mr. Vijayan said Mr. Gandhi’s “brazenly misleading” connection smacked of an “impudence stemming from societal and governmental illiteracy and ignorance”.
The Chhattisgarh Police’s apprehension and consequent remand of the nuns, Sister Preeti Mary and Sister Vandana Francis, who were illegally detained and harangued for hours astatine the Durg railway presumption by Bajrang Dal activists, had triggered nationalist outrage and beardown protests successful Kerala.
Congress’ role
Mr. Vijayan said the nuns were arrested nether the provisions of the Freedom of Religion Act, a “bequest” of the Congress governments which ruled Madhya Pradesh successful the decades preceding the instauration of the State of Chhattisgarh.
Mr. Vijayan recalled that Congress person Ajith Jogi was the archetypal Chief Minister of the recently formed State. He said Mr. Jogi refused to invalidate the discriminatory law, which outlawed “forcible” conversion.
The 2024 predetermination manifesto of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] had demanded the withdrawal of the patently anti-Christian law, which sought to people missionaries, including the clergy progressive successful charitable enactment for the payment of the larger public.
Mr. Vijayan noted that Congress leaders successful Chhattisgarh were conspicuously absent erstwhile the CPI(M) nationalist leaders protested extracurricular the Durg situation successful bid to conscionable the nuns, some elder citizens plagued by chronic illnesses, and guarantee they got aesculapian attraction and due nourishment.
Mr. Vijayan said the Congress’ “complacency and ideological ambiguity” successful politically resisting Hindu majoritarian forces, including their trespasses connected minorities, paved the mode for the ascendancy of the Sangh Parivar-backed BJP successful India.
Mr. Vijayan noted that the Congress was successful powerfulness erstwhile Sangh Parivar forces brutalised thousands of tribal Christians, disrupted supplication meetings and vandalised churches during the 2022-23 Christmas celebrations successful Chhattisgarh.
“Mr. Gandhi was astatine the apex of the Congress nationalist leadership. Was helium connected permission erstwhile Hindutva forces targeted Christians successful Chhattisgarh with impunity during the Congress government’s watch?” Mr. Vijayan asked.
