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NSS flays CPI(M) leaders’ remarks

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NSS general secretary P.K. Narayana Panicker sees bid to destabilise religious and social bodies.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Nair Service Society (NSS), on Sunday, strongly condemned the statements of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and Cooperation Minister G. Sudhakaran, criticising its leader Mannath Padmanabhan for his role in the liberation struggle in the late 1950s.

The leadership meeting of the NSS, which met at the Hindu College in Perunna, termed their statements arrogant. The leadership meeting was attended by the NSS director board and presidium members, taluk union presidents, secretaries and committee members and presided over by NSS general secretary P.K. Narayana Panicker. Mr. Vijayan had criticised the late Mannath Padmanabhan and his role in the liberation struggle. The remarks had evoked sharp reactions from the NSS and the United Democratic Front. The meeting was convened in the context of the CPI(M)’s attack against it.

Mr. Panicker said the meeting had approved the four recommendations passed by the recent All-Kerala Nair Delegates’ Meeting related to the “continuation of wrong reservation policy, hand over of appointments to aided schools to the Kerala Public Service Commission under the pretext of reforming the Kerala Education Rules, bringing school managements under the purview of local bodies and the government’s stand against religious freedom and traditional customs and rituals.”

Mr. Panicker said the meeting had decided to take forward the cooperation with the heads of Churches to protect religious freedom, traditional customs and rituals and fight undue interventions in the aided school sector.

Mr. Panicker said attempts were made by certain quarters in the hope that they could destabilise religious and social organisations which had a strong presence in the field of education by undermining the role of the aided sector and by taking an unacceptable stand against religious freedom and customs. The statements of Mr. Vijayan and Mr. Sudhakaran could be viewed only as part of such attempts.

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