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Kerala Chief Minister-designate V.D. Satheesan has issued a stern informing against communal polarisation. He besides asserted that his authorities would not compromise connected attempts to disrupt the secular cloth of Kerala.
Speaking to mediapersons astatine the Cantonment House connected Friday, Mr. Satheesan lashed retired astatine attempts to represent the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) arsenic a non-secular entity.
Claiming that specified moves were portion of a calculated hatred campaign, the Congress person stressed that the IUML has been a large constituent of the United Democratic Front (UDF) since the times of K. Karunakaran. Besides, the party’s publication was instrumental successful the coalition’s electoral victory.
According to him, the attacks connected the IUML is simply a strategical effort to make a societal divide. He warned that if the IUML was weakened, the resulting governmental vacuum would beryllium filled by extremist communal forces. The enactment served arsenic a captious governmental obstruction against specified extremism, helium said.
Secular credentials
Mr. Satheesan accused the BJP of consistently utilising communal propaganda to incite part astatine some the State and nationalist levels. While acknowledging that definite assemblage organisations whitethorn person idiosyncratic grievances against him, helium made it wide that helium would not tolerate the dispersed of communalism. The UDF did not compromise its values for electoral gains and would proceed to basal steadfast connected its secular credentials.
“Kerala has sent a wide connection to the federation that we are a secular State. We volition not let a azygous scratch connected that identity. No unit volition beryllium permitted to destruct the harmony successful which our aboriginal generations indispensable live. We volition defy specified attempts astatine immoderate cost,” helium said.
