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`CPI(M) encouraging fundamentalism'

Staff Reporter

KANNUR: Communist Marxist Party (CMP) leader M.V. Raghavan has said the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) leadership in the State should do introspection on its `opportunistic understanding' with communal forces in the wake of the Marad Commission report that sheds light on the danger of mixing communalism with politics.

Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Mr. Raghavan said the previous Antony Government was impartial in handling the Marad investigation. CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan was now criticising Mr. Antony in a bid to hide the involvement of his party's workers in the first Marad incident. Mr. Vijayan owed an explanation by either admitting that all the 78 CPI(M) workers among the accused in the first incident were National Development Front workers infiltrated into the party or disclose the action taken against them, he said.

``Will Mr. Vijayan admit that his party's opportunistic understanding with Jamat-e-Islami during the last Assembly elections was wrong?'' he asked. The CPI(M) was forging alliance with Muslim fundamentalist organisations that were seeking to arouse Muslim sentiments, he said.

If Hindu communalism was a threat to the secular fabric of the country, Islamic fundamentalism was a danger to the world, the CMP leader said.

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