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Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan (L) and Congress's Wayanad bypoll campaigner Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (R). (Photos: Facebook/ Pinarayi Vijayan/ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra)
Targeting the Congress up of bypolls successful the state, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was contesting the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat with the enactment of Jamaat-e-Islami, which helium said has an attack that is “not successful favour of a antiauthoritarian system”.
Addressing a run lawsuit for the CPI(M)-led Left front’s Wayanad candidate, Sathyan Mokeri, successful Kalpetta, Vijayan said: “Priyanka Gandhi is contesting with the enactment of Jamaat-e-Islami. What is the basal of the Congress successful this regard? Our state is not unfamiliar with Jamaat-e-Islami. Its adopted attack is not successful favour of antiauthoritarian system… They bash not spot the antiauthoritarian strategy arsenic important. For Jamaat-e-Islami, Islamic regularisation astir the satellite is what is important. They basal for an Islamic regime.”
The bypoll successful Wayanad, acceptable to beryllium held connected November 13, was necessitated aft Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi decided to vacate the spot and clasp Rae Bareli, the different spot helium had won successful the parliamentary elections successful April this year.
At the run lawsuit connected Wednesday, Vijayan said Jamaat-e-Islami Hind’s governmental wing, Welfare Party of India (WPI), “is a shield” for the organisation. The WPI had, earlier this week, extended its enactment to the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) successful the coming bypolls successful the state.
Vijayan, who is simply a CPI(M) Politburo member, besides mentioned Jamaat-e-Islami successful Jammu and Kashmir, which is simply a abstracted entity to Jamaat-e-Islami Hind – the radical that operates successful different parts of India, including Kerala. The Jamaat-e-Islami entity successful Jammu and Kashmir is banned nether the UAPA.
Vijayan said the Jamaat successful J&K had ever been against elections, but successful the caller Assembly polls successful the Union Territory, “they person stood for BJP”.
“This time, they decided to contention successful a fewer seats and finally, they concentrated connected the spot wherever CPI(M) person Tarigami is contesting. What is the reason? Tarigami should beryllium defeated. BJP and extremists besides desired that,” Vijayan claimed. Several Jamaat-backed Independents had contested the J&K elections.
“Sometimes, the Jamaat-e-Islami present (in Kerala) accidental that they are antithetic from the 1 successful J&K. But Jamaat has lone 1 policy, which is the constitution of an Islamic world. They bash not judge immoderate benignant of antiauthoritarian governance system. That is their ideology, and present they privation to assistance the UDF (the Congress-led Opposition confederation successful Kerala)… Through Jamaat-e-Islami, an extremist conception is trying to summation power successful the Indian Union Muslim League (a UDF constituent),” helium said.
Reacting to Vijayan’s remarks, the Kerala president of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, P Mujeeb Rahman, asked the CM to “explain wherefore and erstwhile helium changed his attack towards the organisation”.
“In the caller Lok Sabha elections, Jamaat had supported the CPI(M) successful Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Rajasthan. Why did the CPI(M) not cull our support? In Kerala, we person been supporting the CPI(M) successful each elections since 2004. Till 2020, the CPI(M) ruled respective section bodies with the enactment of the Welfare Party of India,” Rahman said.
He said Vijayan was looking for “a consolidation of bulk ballot banks”.
“This volition assistance lone the Sangh Parivar. From the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, we decided to enactment the Congress arsenic it is the largest enactment beardown capable to look arsenic an anti-BJP force,” Rahman said.
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