BJP accuses PFI of communal provocation
The Hindu
CPI(M) urges public not to fall for divisive propaganda unleashed by fundamentalists
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the Popular Front of India (PFI) of laying the ground for a communal conflagration in Kerala.
BJP State secretary P. Sudhir said PFI activists had attempted to create enmity between two sets of people in Pathanamthitta by forcibly making local school students wear badges emblazoned with the name of a 16th-century conqueror. The alleged incident happened at Kottangal. Mr. Sudhir named the school.
He accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of giving free rein to ‘Islamist’ forces in Kerala. The CPI(M) was playing votebank politics. The ruling party was in alliance with the PFI, and the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) in several Left Democratic Front (LDF) ruled local bodies.