The CPI(M) is preparing to mount an intense political campaign against the BJP and the Sangh Parivar with the intention of baring the political agenda behind the ongoing agitation launched under the pretext of protecting the ritualistic tradition at Sabarimala.
Members of the party and its feeder organisations, mainly youth and women, will fan out across the State to create public awareness on the actual political intent behind the present agitation, sources said.
The thrust of the campaign will be on house visits and family congregations to explain to them the bid by the RSS and Sangh Parivar outfits to disrupt peace at the hill shrine.
A circular purportedly issued by the State BJP leadership assigning State leaders the task of leading the agitation and instructing workers from the Assembly segments to join them at Sabarimala on specific days has come in handy for the CPI(M) to prove its point that the BJP’s focus was on deriving political gains rather than protecting the temple tradition and that the faithful were being led into their fold.
BJP State president P.S. Sreedharan Pillai’s statement that the agitation was against the Communist parties-led State government and that it had offered them a golden opportunity to bring their political foes round to their agenda is expected to provide fuel to the CPI(M) campaign that the faithful are being consistently misled by the Parivar organisations for achieving their political ends.
The snap strike called by the Hindu Aikya Vedi for detaining its president K.P.Sasikala and road blockades organised by the Parivar organisations, inconveniencing score of Sabarimala pilgrims, are reported to have created discontent among the believers and the drive is aimed at further driving home such issues, sources said.
The constitutional obligation of the State government in implementing the Supreme Court verdict that grants entry for women of all ages to the temple and the Union Home Ministry’s directive to the government to scale up security to thwart the possibility of extremist elements infiltrating the ranks of pilgrims at the temple too may be highlighted, sources said.
