HAV warns of ‘Hindu Tsunami’ against implementing Ranganath Mishra report

Ranganath Mishra report: Hindu outfit warns of stir

PNS | Kollam

The Hindu Aikyua Vedi has declared that it would stand by the Dalits “giving life and blood” in the struggle against the implementation of the Ranganath Mishra Commission recommendations. Vedi general secretary Kummanam Rajasekharan and president KP Sasikala asked the Hindus in Kerala to join the struggle against all kinds of exploitations and “to break all fetters for attaining freedom”.

Speaking at the public meeting held as part of the Vedi’s State conference at Kollam the other day, Sasikala warned that the MPs from the State would face a situation where they would not be able to get out of their homes if the Government took a stand favouring the Ranganath Mishra report. “If there is a pro-report stand from the part of the Government the Hindus would lash out against it like a tsunami,” she said. The conference re-elected Sasikala and Kummanam as president and general secretary respectively.

“They (the CPI(M)) don’t excommunicate State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan for saying that cure for diseases could be had by praying at Muringoor (where the Catholic Church was running the Divine Retreat Centre). But why do they excommunicate Padmalochanan for lighting a lamp (at an RSS function?” Sasikala asked. The CPI(M) had removed N Padmalochanan as Mayor of Kollam and expelled him from the party for taking part in an RSS function organized as part of its Pranth Sanghik in February.

Speaking at the meeting, Kummanam said the right to administer temples should be given to the devotees if the Government could implement People’s Plan campaign and decentralization of power. Those who had come to power in the name of progress were still discriminating Dalits and the downtrodden, he pointed out. “Why don’t cultural leaders and rights activists coming forward against such things? The answer is nothing but discrimination,” he said.

“The Hindu community is on a path of agitation,” Kummanam said, alleging that even welfare funds were being distributed on the basis of religion and caste. “No development is taking place in areas where Hindus live in large numbers. Compensation is allotted to victims of accidents at pilgrim centres on the basis of religion. When some pilgrims to some non-Hindu places of worships meet with an accident, there would be probes and compensation. When this happens to Hindus, there would be nothing,” Kummanam alleged.

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