NSS general secretary Sukumaran Nair hits back at A. Vijayaraghavan

He says the Nair Service Society always extended full cooperation to economic modernisation while also ensuring no room for communal forces

Reacting sharply to an article by CPI(M) acting State secretary A. Vijayaraghavan critical of the Nair Service Society in the party organ Deshabhimani, NSS general secretary G. Sukumaran Nair on Friday said that the author appeared clearly unaware of the fact that the NSS, right from its inception, had extended maximum possible cooperation in matters relating to economic modernisation while also ensuring no room for communal forces. Mr. Nair said that the article sought to proclaim that Kerala was the first State to implement the 10% reservation for the forward communities. Though the constitutional amendment enabling the reservation came into existence as early as January 2019, it took the State government nearly two years to make the necessary changes in the Kerala State and Subordinate Service Rules.