PM SHRI meant to propagate RSS ideals, says CPI leader and former Minister Sunil Kumar

Communist Party of India (CPI) State enforcement committee subordinate and erstwhile Minister V.S. Sunil Kumar has said that the Left Democratic Front authorities (LDF) should not instrumentality PM SHRI strategy successful State schools arsenic it is meant to propagate the governmental ideals of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

He was delivering a code astatine an lawsuit organised by the CPI to people the party’s centenary celebrations present connected Sunday (October 26, 2025) evening.

Mr. Sunil Kumar said that the PM SHRI task was portion of the National Education Policy 2020 brought successful by the Union government, which was an effort to intrude into the national rights of State governments. He said that though it was a information that the Centre had been denying funds nether the Samagra Shiksha, Kerala, to the State since 2019, the authorities should person fought for its rights legally alternatively of caving into unit and signing a memorandum of knowing (MoU) to instrumentality the PM SHRI scheme.

He cited the illustration of lawsuit related to the denial of funds for the rehabilitation of the Mundakkai-Chooralmala landslide survivors, successful which the High Court ruled against the Union government. Referring to the statement that the CPI was unhappy due to the fact that it was not consulted earlier signing the MoU, helium said that his enactment was not highlighting this arsenic a usurpation of conjugation principles. Mr. Sunil Kumar pointed retired that it was a governmental contented related to the insertion of RSS ideology successful the acquisition sector.

Amarjeet Kaur, nationalist secretary, CPI, and Sathyan Mokeri, CPI State adjunct secretary, among others, besides spoke.