Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala’s Chief Minister, has fired sharp salvos at Assam’s Himanta Biswa Sarma and the BJP, accusing them of fomenting anti-Muslim hatred through a provocative video and eroding India’s foundational values. His Facebook tirade spotlighted the clip from Assam BJP’s handle depicting Sarma in what looks like a public call to arms against Muslims.
Shaking the roots of secularism, this episode unmasks BJP’s toxic politics, Vijayan declared. Emanating from a top constitutional role, it’s alarmingly novel and imperils democracy’s bedrock.
He portrayed Sarma’s ongoing vituperations and slights toward ‘Miya’ Muslims as integral to BJP’s polarizing machinery, ramped up for electoral gains in Assam despite constitutional red lines.
In a provocative interrogation, Vijayan demanded justification for a leader’s apparent endorsement of minority extermination in a pluralistic republic. The central BJP’s mute spectatorship implies consent, as Sarma articulates what the party and RSS dare not.
Vijayan revisited Sarma’s defection from Congress prominence in 2015, casting him as BJP’s Northeast hate architect. Persistent inaction on his divisive outbursts reveals this as the party’s intrinsic philosophy, he warned, advocating robust defense of India’s secular republic.