The Kerala Opposition on Monday unleashed a scathing attack against the Congress and Muslim League,
the lead parties of the ruling UDF coalition, for communalizing politics and causing administrative standstill in the State. While the CPI(M) alleged that the Muslim League was turning into a terror outfit, the BJP accused the Congress of succumbing to the League’s arrogance. Referring to the pressures exerted by the Muslim League for making the Congress agree to its demand for a fifth Cabinet post, Kerala CPI(M) secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said in Thiruvananthapuram: “The League had held the Congress at the knife-point for this… The Muslim League is slowly turning into a terror outfit.” “The Muslim League leadership is incapable of preventing terror elements from infiltrating into that party. Moreover, the League leadership is adopting a stance that justifies these elements,” Pinarayi said while inaugurating an agitation programme of Kerala Karshaka Sangham, a feeder outfit of the CPI(M). Pinarayi said that the Muslim League’s pressure on Chief Minister Oommen Chandy was so intense in the issue of the fifth Cabinet berth that he had to force the Congress high command (“through talks with Sonia Gandhi and AK Antony”) revise the earlier decision of the central leadership and the State Congress unit not to agree to the League demand. When complaints arose that the fifth Cabinet berth for the League had disrupted the communities balance in the Ministry, “Chandy tried to satisfy the Hindu Nairs and Ezhavas by shuffling the Portfolios of Hindu Ministers of the Congress,” he pointed
out, adding that this had led to complaints of communalization of State administration. “When Chandy was looking after the Home Department (till April 12), it was the Muslim League which was actually handling it. “Power has made the Muslim League blind and arrogant. And the Congress leadership has surrendered
itself to this arrogance,” Pinarayi alleged. State BJP president V Muraleedharan said that the Congress in Kerala had fallen into such a pathetic condition that its chief Ramesh Chennithala had to beg before
Muslim League president and its spiritual leader Hyderali Shihab Thangal to make his activists and leaders stop the anti-Congress tirade that had started with the issue of the fifth Cabinet berth. The Congress in Kerala
had surrendered itself to the Muslim League, he said adding that such a Congress chief brought humiliation to that party itself and what was left for Chennithala to do was to resign from his party and join the Muslim League.
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