The resignations were triggered by an allegation that a local party secretary has links with the SDPI. The BJP called it a proof of CPM’s links with religious terrorist groups.
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BJP Kerala president K Surendran on Saturday said the explosion in Alappuzha CPI-M over the party leader’s link with SDPI is proof of its (CPI-M’s) relationship with religious terrorist groups.
In a jolt to the CPI-M in Kerala as many as 38 party members, including four branch secretaries of the Cheriyanad south local committee in Alappuzha, resigned from the party in protest against the party’s local secretary’s alleged links with the SDPI, the political wing of the banned Islamic organization Popular Front of India (PFI).
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In a Facebook post, Surendran alleged that the CPI-M is moving towards Islamisation. He said earlier the relationship was hidden, but now it is being maintained publicly.
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“This relationship with the religious terrorist groups is active not only at the local secretary level but also in the cabinet and secretariat,” Surendran said.
The BJP chief said he is happy that party workers could see the real face of CPI-M. “The collective resignation of 38 party members of the Cheryanadu South Local Committee against their leaders’ links with religious terrorists is welcome,” he added.
He further said it is better for Kerala CPI-M leaders to remember the result of Bengal where the party had supported religious terrorist groups to get minority votes. “In Bengal the CPI-M suffered a complete collapse when the Muslim minority, realising that they would be more comfortable with Mamata, went with Trinamul, and the majority went to the BJP,” Surendran said.
Stating that the developments in Alappuzha are not an isolated incident, Surendran said the unholy relationship will make the CPI-M ranks all over Kerala to sit up and think.
Those who resigned alleged that the party’s local secretary, Sheed Muhammad, is CPI-M in the day and SDPI in night.
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