By Twocircles.net Staff Reporter
Kozhikode: The article published by RSS mouthpiece Organiser about Kerala has drawn the ire of political parties and cultural activists in the state. The article titled‘Kerala: God’s own country or Godless country’
Author M Surendranath, a lawyer and law lecturer from Mumbai, through the article, has painted the entire state of Kerala in bad light and generalising all Keralites. CPM leader Pinarayi Vijayan’s Facebook post termed the article declaration of war against Kerala.
“The RSS is challenging the culture and history of Kerala and the self-esteem of Keralites,” the Facebook post said. The article, according to the post, was a compilation of ‘outright lies’ aimed at destroying the secular fabric of Kerala, left parties and the minorities.
In the wake of beef raid, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had demanded strong action against the Delhi police. The RSS article accused the state as a Congress and communist regime which thrashes the ‘human values’.
Activists denouncing the article pointed their finger at several factual fallacies in the article. While referring to the Muslim-majority district of Malappuram in northern Kerala, the author says: “Malappuram is a miniature of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where the Muslims are allowed to live undisturbed by carrying on the practice and propagation of Islam. The Muslims here receive funding from wealthy Arabs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In Malappuram, one can find cow slaughter houses at every nook and corner and a thriving leather industry”.
The imagination of the author reaches its peak, when it says, “After Kerala came to existence, it was in Malappuram Indian Union Muslim League led by C H Mohammed Koya established Islamic Sharia law challenging the constitution. “
Reacting to the claims in the article about Malappuram, Vijayan said, “Such campaigns about Malappuram district have been doing the rounds for some time now. We suspect that there is a plan to create communal clashes in the district. We will oppose the RSS plan to project Kerala as a ‘centre for terrorists’ to the rest of the world.”
The article says the Chief Minister, who has been pro-Congress from his school days, is actually a ‘pro Communist’.
It discharges huge attack on Communists as well as Muslims, with a bizarre personal attack on EMS Namboodiripad, the first Chief Minister of Kerala and CPM leader. “EMS also regularly visited the houses of Dalits and took part in their social functions at which dishes of beef were served which he partook, affirming to them with his purported logic that ‘there is nothing wrong in eating beef when one can eat mutton’”.
The author also says that instead of teaching about the life of Hindu saints, warriors and kings like Raja Harish Chandra and Shivaji, books “pertaining to the life and time of public prostitutes (like “The Autobiography of a Sex Worker” By Nalini Jameela); the life and time of notorious thief (like “The Autobiography of Maniyan Pillai, The Thief”) etc were introduced.”