The United Democratic Front (UDF) on Monday came out with a political document indicting the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Sangh Parivar organisations for alleged attempts to divide the State’s civil society by using violence and communalism as tools.
In a political resolution, passed at an agitation proclamation convention here, the UDF accused the CPI(M) and the BJP of attempts to continue the devious tactics adopted in the Assembly elections mainly aimed at strengthening their vote banks. The CPI(M)’s poll percentage was two per cent less than that in 2011 elections, but yet it won 91 seats. The BJP increased its vote share to 15% from the 6% in 2011. Based on this, the LDF was claiming that it was able to attract minority votes while the BJP-led National Democratic Front claimed that it mobilised more votes of majority communities. It is in this context that the CPI(M) and the BJP’s attempts to create a majority-minority divide should be viewed. This was an issue that the State never had to face before, the resolution, prepared by KPCC vice president M.M. Hassan, said.
The LDF’s move to create communal division was launched ever since it assumed power. Listing out various such attempts, the resolution said that no government had taken the initiative to stoke communal passions as the LDF through actions and statements of its leaders. “This cannot be viewed as coincidental. Rather, it was a planned political tactic,” it said.
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