NEW DELHI: The capital will soon witness a conference on political violence. It’s the RSS which will play the victim card this time and “expose the red terror” in Kerala. And strangely, the RSS is planning to rope in the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), which is also a victim of CPM violence.
“We expect the IUML to extend their support for the function as they are also victims of Left violence,’’ said an RSS insider.
To be organised by Sarvodaya, an RSS-inspired organisation, the conference will remember the “650 martyrs’’ who were killed by the comrades in Kerala. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of Union ministers are expected to attend it. The conference is being been held amid a growing sense of frustration in the organisation that the attacks are largely going unnoticed while the Left is playing the victim card nationally.
The function will also have the presence of K K Rema, the RMP leader whose husband T P Chandrasekharan was murdered by CPM men, and a sizeable number of workers from Kannur, the heartland of CPM-RSS violence. Several Kerala RSS cadres who have been victims of political violence are being invited to share their stories. They include Sadanandan Master, whose both legs were chopped off by CPM cadres.
With the function, the RSS is trying to expose the CPM’s “hypocrisy”. “The Left forces had been accusing us of campus unrest and espousing the Dalit cause while they themselves are unleashing terror in Kerala,” said an RSS insider invited to the conference.
According to insiders, the idea of holding a meeting came up after the PM’s rallies. “Since 1970s, over 650 of our workers have lost their lives. Somehow the attacks have skipped the nation’s attention. The Left parties there are playing the victim card,” a Sangh insider said.