BJP State president V. Muraleedharan said on Saturday that the BJP would lead the people against the ‘freedom parade’ proposed to be organised by the Popular Front of India, if they were not stopped by the authorities.
Replying to questions at a press conference here, the State president said that the party had not, however, decided to organise protests against the ‘parade’.
Mr. Muraleedharan announced that the party would organise campaigns for a fortnight beginning on August 9 against terrorism. Celebrations would be organised at 2000 places on the Independence Day as part of resistance against terrorism.
He said that the United Democratic Front was trying to protect the National Democratic Front which had now become the Popular Front. The Congress and Muslim League leaders had recommended withdrawal of cases against NDF men when in power. The Congress was not speaking against the NDF as it wanted to continue its electoral alliance with the NDF.
The people should rise against politicians aiding extremists. He criticised that the Opposition Leader Oommen Chandy was trying to protect terrorists through his statements. He was forgetting that terrorism had no religion. Though both the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran and Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan made statements against terrorism, no action had been forthcoming when situations similar to Kashmir were arising in the State.
He asked what action the government had taken against information beneficial to the terrorists leaking out from the police force. The central intelligence had reported that about 500 policemen in the
State had links with extremist organisations. The Home Department had virtually a prisoner unable to act against extremists because of political pressures.
