Tensions flare in political circles as Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan lambasts Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and BJP for circulating a video that allegedly goads violence against Muslims, branding it a blatant violation of constitutional principles. In a strongly worded Facebook post, Vijayan decried the content shared via Assam BJP’s official channel.
This dissemination has jolted the secular society to its core, laying bare the BJP’s hazardous ideological path, he noted. Unprecedented for a constitutional authority, it poses an existential threat to India’s democratic structure.
Vijayan wove a narrative of repeated offenses: Sarma’s hate-filled orations and belittling comments on Assam’s ‘Miya’ Muslims form a continuum of BJP’s strategy to fracture communities. As polls approach, this engineered polarization prioritizes vote banks over national harmony.
Challenging the rationale, he queried the propriety of entrusting governance to one spouting minority-targeted vitriol in a secular nation. BJP’s leadership hush is complicity, with Sarma voicing the party’s and RSS’s suppressed agendas.
Tracing Sarma’s arc from Congress heavyweight to BJP strategist post-2015, Vijayan positioned him as the Northeast’s communal agitator. Immunity from action against his exclusionary rhetoric confirms it’s emblematic of BJP doctrine, he argued, rallying for protection of constitutional integrity.