Thiruvananthapuram, June 2 (IANS) The Congress in Kerala Wednesday criticised Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan for questioning the party’s secular credentials and said that he was trying to create communal disharmony.
State Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala said Achuthanandan was making baseless and malicious statements about the Congress, trying to promote minority communalism.
‘It has been the Congress party which has always towed the secular line all across the country and we do not require a certificate from Achuthanandan to prove our secular credentials,’ Chennithala told reporters here.
Achuthanandan Tuesday evening said that the recent merger of the Kerala Congress-Joseph faction, which was an ally of the Left, with Kerala Congress (Mani), an ally of the Congress-led alliance, and the secret parleys between the Indian Union Muslim League and Jamat-e-Islami were part of the Congress agenda of promoting minority communalism.
‘The CPI-M has always been in hand-in-glove with organisations like the Jamat-e-Islami and very recently with the Abdul Nazir-led People’s Democratic Party,’ said Chennithala.
‘The country saw how the CPI-M joined hands with the BJP, first during the last UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government’s time and recently they voted with the BJP on the cut motion. This mode of baseless attack by the CPI-M is a ploy to play the card
of majority communalism,’ said Chennithala.
