THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CPM in Kerala has come out against the Sangh Parivar for trying to insult cultural icon and Jnanpith awardee MT Vasudevan Nair. "The fascist face of BJP-RSS forces has been exposed with their insult to MT who voiced his dissent for demonetisation," opined CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.
MT, as the writer is popularly known, had made the comments about demonetisation while releasing the book 'Kallappana Vetta: Mithyayum Yadharthyavum' (The war against Black money: The myth and the reality) by State finance minister TM Thomas Isaac.
“The government keeps on changing its word about the number of days needed to set things right. What I have understood is that the countries that played with the currency system have flirted with danger,” MT said after releasing the book.
The demonetisation drive has brought out Modi's anarchist way of administration. Any individual with enough common sense and patriotism will disagree with this move.
"The responses by Sangh Parivar activists portraying MT Vasudevan Nair's dissent towards demonetisation as a major fault, is primitive. Questioning MT's credibility to speak about demonetisation is absurd. MT has the right and eligibility to express opinion about such issues more than anyone else," Kodiyeri said adding that BJP's attempt to draw a ‘Lekshman Rekha’ for everything will not work in India.
Kodiyeri also criticised certain remarks on the social media - referring to his novel 'Nalukett' - where some Sangh Parivar supporters have opined that it's better for MT to live in Pakistan, and pointed out that it's an insult to cultural India.
Any attempt to restrict writers who don't toe the line of BJP and Narendra Modi is mere fascism, CPM state secretary said adding that by voicing his opinion MT Vasudevan Nair only reflected the sentiments and thoughts of the common man.