Pinarayi Vijayan says ‘if Congress tries to follow Sangh stand, how can it strengthen secularism?’ 

Pinarayi Vijayan

Kerala chief minister and senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Pinarayi Vijayan, in an interview with Indian Express, criticized the Congress-led Madhya Pradesh government for its move to invoke the stringent National Security Act against those arrested on charges of cow slaughter, calling it “against the secular character” of India.

The minister while the interview said, it’s a very wrong move … it is against the secular character of our nation. A party like the Congress, which claims to be secular, taking up steps such as the Sangh Parivar is not acceptable. When BJP took up the cow issue, Congress leaders had claimed that it had banned cow slaughter earlier.

He further said, “If the Congress tries to follow Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or Sangh Parivar stand on every issue, how can it strengthen secularism? It will, in fact, breed communalism. Take the case of Sabarimala, the Congress joined ranks with the RSS and BJP. If you want to strengthen secularism, you cannot adopt a communal stance.”

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