Vagbhatananda, MT Vasudevan Nair lucky: CM Pinarayi Vijayan

KOZHIKODE: Vagbhatananda, the great social reformer in British India, could  speak against idol worship because the RSS did not exist then. Or else,  he would have been killed the very next day of his preaching,  opined Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.  He was presenting the  first Vagbhatananda award to  writer  MT Vasudevan Nair at a function held at the headquarters of  Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society here on Saturday. The award consisting of Rs 1 lakh, memento and a citation has been instituted by the ULCCS. Mr Vijayan said that M.T. Vasudevan Nair could film  Nirmalyam because RSS was non-functional  then.  

If he had done it now, he would have been knocked down  by the  saffron brigade.  “Luckily, his work still exists  and is  talked about.   MT is the  most deserving person to receive the  award instituted in the name of Vagbhatananda,” he said. Award committee chairman Prabha Varma said that at a  time when the secular fabric of the society was facing threat from communal forces,  MT’s works are  significant. The other members of the committee were writer Alamkode Leelakrishnan and journalist R. Parvathi Devi.