CPIM lauches padayatra against communal violence in Kasargod District

CPIM Kasargod district committte has lauched its 3 day padayatra named ‘ Maanava Souhruda Sandesha Yatra' to campaign against the recurring violence and communal clashes in the district in recent months. Two padayatras were flagged off on suday. One is led by party central committee member P. Karunakaran, MP and the second march is led by party district unit secretary K.P. Sathish Chandran. The Padayatra led by Com P Karunakaran was flagged off by Party state secretary Pinarayi vijayan at Thrikkarippur and the second one was flagged off by party leader A.K. Narayanan at Kunjathur at Manjeswaram. Both the marches will culminate at Kanhangad on Tuesday evening.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) State unit secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has accused the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) of sheltering communal and extremist forces. Mr. Vijayan said the UDF was appeasing the communal forces, which were bent on vitiating the religious harmony in the State. The recurring communal violence in parts of Kasaragod district should be attributed to the appeasement policy pursued by the ruling front, he said. The reforms witnessed in the State as a result of the progressive ideals espoused by social leaders and the Communist movement had vanished. The IUML was full of communal and divisive forces and the party was sheltering perpetrators of communal clashes, he alleged. The M.A. Nisar Commission appointed by the previous Left Democratic Front government to probe the November 2009 violence in Kasaragod was dismantled owing to pressure from the IUML leadership after the UDF came to power, he said. It was time that the IUML did an introspection on its role in the 2009 violence in which two IUML activists lost their lives. He said that the IUML was protecting those committing atrocities in the name of ‘moral policing,' and the UDF was making every attempt to shield such persons from the clutches of law. He alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was also guilty of similar actions.