Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of implementing an upper caste Hindutva agenda in the country, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president M.M. Hassan has said that the CPI(M) in the State is no different from the BJP in oppressing the Dalits.
Inaugurating a protest organised by the district Congress leadership here in solidarity with the party’s nationwide fast on Monday to promote social harmony and protest against the alleged dilution of the Scheduled Caste-Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Mr. Hassan said that Dalits in the country were being targeted after the BJP came to power.
Many welfare schemes were being denied to the Dalits, he added.
The KPCC president also said that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was also no different from the BJP in persecuting the Dalits.
The Left Democratic Front government’s decision to cancel five cents allotted to Dalit autorikshaw driver Chitralekha here by the previous United Democratic Front (UDF) government was the latest example of the CPI(M)’s vendetta against her, Mr. Hassan said.
Terming the cancellation of the land allotment as inhuman and unjust, he said the CPI(M) was expelling Ms. Chitralekha from her land.
He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan were competing in hounding the Dalits.
K.C. Joseph, MLA, Congress leader K. Sudhakaran, KPCC vice president Lali Vincent, treasurer Johnson Abraham, KPCC general secretaries Shooranad Rajashekharan, K.P. Kunhikannan, Sajeev Joseph, V.A. Narayanan, spokesman Rajmohan Unnithan, party leader P. Ramakrishnan, and district Congress president Satheeshan Pacheni were among those present.
