CPI(M) and BJP have strategy of hate for Kerala polls: Welfare Party
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Fraternity Movement’s student and youth rally in Kozhikode against communal hate and propaganda.
Kozhikode: Welfare Party national vice president Hamid Vaniyambalam said that CPI(M) and BJP have the same strategy of hate to confront the assembly elections in Kerala. They struck a deal with each other so that the CPI(M) could come to power and the BJP could win seats in the assembly, he said.
Speaking after inaugurating the general conference organized by the State Committee of Fraternity Movement under the title ‘Vidhwesha Naavukalod No, Sahodarya Munnetathod Yes’ (No to tongues of hate, Yes to the Fraternity Movement), Hamid said that AK Balan's racial statement was pre-decided and issued as part of this deal. Only the RSS and the CPI(M) made the claim that the Marad incident was a massacre, which even the inquiry commission did not suggest.
He added that today in Kerala, the deal between Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the BJP has grown into a political form, beyond the Lavalin and Exalogic cases.
Fraternity state president Naeem Ghafoor presided over the event. He said that the culture of fraternal politics should grow against hate propaganda. He opined that Rahul Mamkootathil, who was expelled from the Congress party over multiple sexual assault/abuse cases, should resign from the post of MLA.
Lubaib Basheer, national general secretary of Fraternity, delivered the keynote speech.
Shashikant Bhagel, the brother of Ram Narayan Bhagel, a native of Chhattisgarh, who was a victim of lynching by Hindutva terrorists in Walayar, was the chief guest at the conference. He said that his brother was killed by those who imbibed the politics of hatred emanating from the factory of RSS. He added that all the RSS men who had racially murdered his brother should be arrested immediately.
Writer KK Baburaj, social activist Ambika Maruwak, and activist Adv. Amin Hasan spoke.
Fraternity state secretary Ranjitha Jayaraj moved a resolution demanding that Islamophobia be declared a crime, and vice president Shamima Zakir moved a resolution demanding a judicial commission to investigate caste and ethnic killings. State General Secretary Muhammad Saeed TK delivered the closing speech.
Earlier, a student and youth rally was held from Gandhi Junction in Vella, raising the slogan of 'countering hate propaganda'.