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Protection of minorities top on agenda: Pinarayi

KOLLAM: State secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Pinarayi Vijayan said here on the Wednesday that protection of minorities was the declared policy of the party.

He was inaugurating a family gathering of the CPI(M)’s Kollam town east local committee. He said the bulk of the minorities in the State was now with the CPI(M). For a brief period in the recent past, a section of the minorities had looked upon the CPI(M) with suspicion and even unleashed slander against the party. But such sections had realised their mistake.

They considered the CPI(M) a reliable political party now. Leaders of the Church had also begun to realise that they could not keep the communists isolated and move forward.

This situation has shocked the Congress and the United Democratic Front (UDF) he said.

The UDF viewed the development as an erosion of its vote bank and was hence spreading the canard that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the CPI(M) were anti-minority organisations. But the people had started rejecting it.

The UDF was raising the atheist issue to target the CPI(M), he said.

Mr. Vijayan said the LDF government had made a “historical intervention” to mitigate the plight of the victims of the unseasonal rain that lashed the State recently. The government is taking effective measures for the welfare of the people. It is because of such measures that the price rise phenomenon in Kerala is not as grave as the situation in the rest of the country, he said.

During the past two years, the LDF government had allocated Rs.311 crore to the Civil Supplies Corporation (CSC) in order to keep prices under control. The UDF Government had only made an allocation of Rs.177 crore to the CSC during the five-year period it was in power, he said.

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