Pinarayi Vijayan questions CM’s silence over Sangh’s communal drive
Chandy and BJP are playing hide and seek with the serious allegations
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPM politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday alleged that chief minister Oommen Chandy had the biggest desire to have a NDA-led alliance in place in the state for local body poll.
The CPM leader expressed concern over the communal campaign unleashed by the NDA combine at their recent convention at Chennithala. Under the Constitution, communal campaign is a crime.
"The Sangh Parivar is trying to communalise the local body poll employing Amit Shah's Uttar Pradesh formula under which an innocent man was lynched by a mob for keeping mutton which was portrayed by the hate mongers as beef. "We will prevent, at any cost, their attempts to create a similar environment in the state," he said.
Why is Oommen Chandy silent on those spewing communal venom in the state? Pinarayi asked in a Facebook post. Kerala will not accept Amit Shah's and Togadia's communal experiment.
The people of Kerala will give a befitting reply to the chief minister's silent approval for Sangh Parivar which is trying to blacken the face of Indian secularism.
Amit Shah is trying to open BJP account in the state by exploiting the political aspirations of SNDP Yogam general secretary Vellapally Natesan, he said.
The CPM leader said the BJP has the responsibility of reacting to serious allegations against Vellapally in connection with the micro-finance corruption and the suspicious death of Swami Saswathikananda.
Chandy and BJP are playing hide and seek with the serious allegations. There is an attempt to whitewash the grave charges, Pinarayi said and added that the people of the state would give a befitting reply to the communal agenda and this would be reflected in the local body poll verdict.