"You Cannot Call Me Communal Nor This Party Communal:" Rajeev Chandrasekhar On Pinarayi Vijayan's Remark (image:instagram.com/rajeev_chandrasekhar)

In response to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan”s criticism of Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the latter justified his remarks and reacted: “You cannot call me nor this party communal.”

As he draws history of appeasement that causes radicalism, Minister elucidated that what Chief Minister and CPI(M) has done in the wake of this attack is similar to what Congress done during 26/11 attack.
“First, instead of dealing with issue of the terror organisation Hamas, they say we are communal. Same thing happened in 26/11. Then they say, it is an RSS conspiracy to defame the government.” He then added: “they say, Hamas is justified in violence, which is normalising terrorism. ”

Minister, then accuses that if BJP draw attention to terrorism, radicalisation, and protecting the youth against radical elements, they were being targeted as “communal.”

“When an organisation like Hamas is allowed to preach hatred and jihad in Kerala, it is free speech for CM Pinarayi Vijayan . . .yet, the same Chief Minister will not hesitate to put journalist behind bars, when that journalist is exercising free speech,” he pointed out.

Citing Elathur train incident in June this year, Minister said both government of Kerala, and Kerala police called the attacker as mentally ill, and dismissed it as not a terror attack, while the subsequent investigation proved it as a well-planned, ISIS inspired one.

Mr Chandrasekhar then added that from 2006 onwards there are increasing incidents of people who have been radicalised in Kerala – joining Taliban, ISIS, and leaving for Syria, and Afghanistan. “For several years there has been a phenomenon of growing radicalisation amongst some people in Kerala,” he said. To point that out is not communal, since it is the a duty of every citizen to protect children from radicalised.

Adding further, he said what he mentioned in last two days has nothing to do about any community, and only meant “innocence from all communities and faiths are one who bear the price of terror and appeasement that causes terror;” for that he has been referred by Chief Minister as “spitting the poison of communalism.”

“You cannot call me nor this party communal,” Minister stressed.

In the bomb blasts at a Jehovah”s Witnesses prayer convention at  Ernakulam”s Kalamassery, on Sunday morning, two were killed and over 41 worshippers were wounded.