KCR will face people’s ire

Kerala CM Vijayan advises TRS govt to mend ways

Hyderabad: Stating that the things have not changed even after the formation of separate state of Telangana, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan warned that the TRS government will have to face the ire of the people, if it does not focus its attention on the development of the most backward classes.

Speaking at the Samara Sammelanam organized by the CPM to mark the conclusion of 4,200-km statewide padayatra by the party state secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram at Saroornagar on Sunday, the Kerala Chief Minister said the government should discuss what exactly was required to be done for the comprehensive development of the state.

“Development, he said, would be possible only through social justice. If the government does not know how to go about, it should accept the alternate action plan suggested by the CPM,” he said. The real problems can be gauged only when you go to the grassroot level and find out what the people want. If the most backward sections do not progress, it cannot be said that the state had progressed,” he said.

He congratulated Veerabhadram and his team for successfully completing the padayatra despite stiff opposition from KCR, BJP and RSS. Stating that it was imperative to burst the myth that the BJP and Sangh Pariwar are undefeatable, Vijayan said time had come for all the democratic and progressive forces to come together, form people’s alliance to defeat communalism and neo-liberalism.

He said after the recent Assembly elections in five states, some people claim that the BJP cannot be defeated, but that is not true. In Goa and Manipur, the BJP used undemocratic moves to form governments despite clearly being the losers,” said Vijayan. The Kerala CM said the BJP during 2014 elections got only 42.3 per cent votes but in this elections it got 39.7 per cent votes, which shows 60 per cent people of UP had voted against the BJP. The Opposition was not united in UP which helped the BJP, he said.

He said the freedom of speech was under threat during the BJP rule. Recalling the incidents when he was stopped from attending a programme in Bhopal and threats were issued against him in Mangalore and also added that party’s general secretary Sitaram Yechury’s programme was also stopped in Nagpur University following the ‘dictates’ of the Sangh.

He also criticised the BJP on nationalism stating: “They belonged to RSS, who disowned our freedom struggle, wrote apologetic letters to the Britishers and killed Mahatma Gandhi.” Now, he said, the BJP has selected Yogi Adityanath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Adityanath has criminal charges against him for inciting communal tensions. He has always been the symbol of communal violence, riots intolerance and hatred, he added.

“It was he who had spearheaded communal violence in 2007 and asked the people who don’t offer Surya Namaskar to go to Pakistan. By making such a person as CM of the biggest state in the country, the message the BJP sends to nation was that they will continue to try to capture power by resorting to communal riots,” he said.

The Kerala CM alleged that Union government was violating federal principles enshrined in the Constitution. The blatant imposing of President’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand was the biggest example, he said. Stating that South India gave steepest resistance to the Sangh, Vijayan said that now the BJP was using all their might to disrupt peaceful lives of the people.

CPM state secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram said the KCR government was making false promises. He said it had failed to implement the promises like two-bedroom houses, three-acre land to Dalits and was not implementing even the SC-ST sub plan. He demanded that the government introduce Muslim reservation bill during the session. He criticised the Chief Minister for not including women in the state Cabinet.