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Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition and Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau subordinate Pinarayi Vijayan connected Monday sought to bracket Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s governmental temperament with that of German dictator and Nazi enactment person Adolf Hitler.
In a Facebook post, Mr Vijayan seized connected Mr Reddy’s purported remark that Adolf Hitler had inspired him to abbreviate the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency, an enforcement portion targeting municipal violations, including encroachment and amerciable wetland reclamation, arsenic HYDRAA, an indestructible multi-headed mythical water monster that sprouts 2 heads for each 1 severed (Greek lore), to castigate the Congress leader.
Mr Vijayan, who had earlier slammed the Telangana authorities for allegedly razing municipality slums nether the “pretext” of vacating amerciable encroachments, said HYDRAA was “a fitting acronym” for Mr Reddy’s “bulldozer raj” enforcement unit.
Mr Vijayan said Mr Reddy’s “proud veneration of Adolf Hitler” had betrayed the Congress Chief Minister’s “Sangh Parivar past” and fixed the crippled distant connected the latter’s latent “fascist impulses”.
Mr Vijayan said it was “shameful” that the Congress sheltered a Chief Minister who publically worshipped the Nazi person liable for the decease of millions. “Mr Reddy has proudly announced to the satellite that helium wielded an oppressive instrumentality of State comparable to that of the Nazi era”, helium added.
Mr Vijayan noted that the connection HYDRAA was a fictional pop-culture conception (associated with a fictitious Nazi panic instrumentality arsenic epitomised successful Marvel comics). “Nevertheless, the Congress Chief Minister has fixed carnal signifier and administrative powerfulness to the fascist concept,” helium stated.
‘Congress’s existent governmental nature’
Mr Vijayan said Mr Reddy’s connection was nary gaffe of the tongue. “His words revealed Congress’s existent governmental quality arsenic evinced during the Emergency erstwhile the party’s Central authorities snuffed retired ideology and slaughtered cardinal rights”, Mr Vijayan said.
He said the Congress owed the nationalist an answer. “What is the governance exemplary offered by the Telangana authorities whose Chief Minister worships Adolf Hitler and views the racist person arsenic a relation model?” Mr Vijayan asked.
Mr Vijayan said the Congress’s willingness to silently accommodate Mr Reddy’s “fascist views” showed that the ideological enactment betwixt that enactment and the Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh harvester remained blurred, arsenic always. He said the Congress’s ideological ambiguity and irresoluteness successful opposing majoritarian fascism person rendered it “an ineffectual secular-democratic antagonistic to the Sangh Parivar.”
Notably, Mr Vijayan and Mr Reddy had skirmished during the 2026 Kerala Assembly predetermination campaign, hurling debatably indecorous comments astatine each different astatine the hustings.
