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‘Jamat-e-Islami’s communal propaganda will help RSS’
DC | 8 Nov 2013

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat releasing the first issue of Mukhyadhara, a CPM sponsored magazine, by handing over a copy to Qutabbudin Ansari, victim of communal violence in Gujarat. —DC
CPM general secretary Prakash Karat releasing the first issue of Mukhyadhara, a CPM sponsored magazine, by handing over a copy to Qutabbudin Ansari, victim of communal violence in Gujarat. —DC

Kozhikode: CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has again launched a scathing attack on the Jamat-e-Islami and equated it with the Hindu fundamentalist outfit RSS.

Delivering the keynote address at the release of Mukhyadhara (mainstream), a magazine brought out by the CPM to address the issues facing the Muslim community, here on Thursday, Vijayan said the activities of the Jamat-e-Islami will provide only ammunition to the “poisonous propaganda of the RSS.”

He also said the Jamat-e-Islami has shown ‘intolerance’ towards criticism and added that it should not “harbour any illusion that it can silence CPM by threatening to act against critics at the time of elections.”

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat, who released the first issue of the magazine by handing over a copy to Qutabbudin Ansari, a victim of communal violence in Gujarat, said the UPA government at the centre had failed in protecting the interests of the minority community.

“A large section of the Muslim population in the country is still facing communal discrimination,” he said. Karat blamed the UPA government for failure in implementing the recommendations of the Rajinder Sachar committee, appointed to study the social and economic conditions of the Muslim community.

He said that the people have to wage a struggle for the implementation of the committee report. Pinarayi, on his first visit to the city after being exonerated in the Lavalin case, was given a tumultuous welcome at the Kozhikode railway station by party activists.