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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Monday (December 8, 2025) accused the United Democratic Front (UDF) of attempting to legitimise Jamaat-e-Islami for electoral gains, stating that the beforehand was looking for “new allies” arsenic radical were distancing themselves from it.
Speaking astatine a ‘Meet the Press’ successful Kannur, helium said Congress and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) were trying to task Jamaat-e-Islami positively contempt beardown absorption from wrong the Muslim community.
He alleged that the UDF was acceptable to align with organisations that had ne'er been portion of mainstream fronts including those taking “communal extremist positions.” The Chief Minister said Jamaat-e-Islami had agelong been isolated from Muslim masses owed to its ain ideological stance and deficiency of engagement with antiauthoritarian processes.
He accused the organisation of spreading calculated misinformation, akin to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), to make hostility towards the Left. Their campaign, helium said, aims to erase the community’s increasing acceptance of the Left, which emerged from lived experiences during periods of majoritarian threats.
Mr. Vijayan said attempts to marque the CPI(M) arsenic adjacent to the RSS were baseless, pointing retired that implicit 200 enactment workers had mislaid their lives successful RSS attacks. He asserted that the Left had consistently resisted communal unit and intervened to reconstruct bid dissimilar the Congress oregon the UDF.
Referring to past governmental developments, helium criticised the Congress and IUML for “silent and open” ties with the BJP, citing the 1991 “Kolibi alliance” and instances wherever RSS workers received favourable attraction nether erstwhile Congress-led governments. He besides criticised the behaviour of Congress leaders during the Marad conflict, saying it exposed the party's compromises with the RSS.
Mr. Vijayan said authoritative gathering with the Prime Minister and Union Minister were portion of law responsibility, particularly erstwhile seeking Central enactment for Kerala's urgent needs. Such engagements, helium said should beryllium misrepresented arsenic governmental alignment.
The Chief Minister alleged that Jamaat-e-Islami’s power wrong the IUML had grown, contributing to targeted propaganda against the Left. He urged the IUML and Congress to rethink their ties with communal outfits, informing that specified moves could harm the State’s secular cloth and harm their ain governmental future.
He concluded that nary effort to statement the CPI(M) arsenic pro-RSS would succeed, adding that specified descriptions acceptable lone those who had protected RSS activities, withdrawn cases against its workers, oregon maintained covert relations with them.
