Thiruvananthapuram, July 29: The BJP on Saturday demanded stern action by the Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala into the recent provocative sloganeering issue by the Youth League activists and said those anti-Hindu slogans didn’t come up suddenly but were practised beforehand and raised deliberately.
The saffron party also criticised the alleged silence of other mainstream political parties in the state including the ruling CPI(M), the CPI and Congress on the controversial issue.
In a Malayalam tweet, senior BJP leader and the party’s Kerala Prabhari (party in-charge) Prakash Javadekar attacked the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) over the provocative slogans raised by its Youth League activists during a march in Kasaragod and asked them to give a reply to the people of the state.
Questioning the sincerity of the League’s claims that they had expelled a party worker who had raised the anti-Hindu slogan, he said not just him but there were over 300 other activists, who had taken part in the march, who also raised similar slogans. “This was not a slogan that came up suddenly. It was practised beforehand and raised deliberately,” Javadekar tweeted.
Why are parties like the CPI(M), CPI, Congress and such others not responding on the matter, he asked.
The state government should take stern action on the issue, the former union minister demanded, tagging Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. (PTI)
