NEW DELHI: The Capital will soon witness a national conference on political violence. And, it is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) which will play the victim card this time and expose the ‘red terror’ in Kerala.
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 meeting has been called amid a growing sense of frustration in the organisation that the attacks are largely going unnoticed in other parts of the country while the Left is playing the victim card nationally.
And strangely, the RSS is planning to rope in the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) which is also a “victim’’ of Left violence.
“We expect the IUML to extend their support for the function as they are also victims of Left violence,’’ said an RSS insider. The function will also have the presence of K K Rema, the Revolutionary Marxist party leader whose husband T P Chandrasekharan was murdered by the CPI(M).
A committee is being constituted to prepare a detailed agenda for the conference. It could comprise RSS workers, Supreme Court lawyers, academicians and human right activists.
Several RSS cadres, who have been victims of the political violence in Kerala, are being invited to share their stories. They include Sadanandan Master, whose both legs were chopped off by the CPI(M) cadres. He had shared the dais with the Prime Minister during the election campaign in Kerala.
With the function, the RSS is trying to expose the “hypocrisy” of the CPI(M). “The Left forces had been accusing us of campus unrest and espousing the Dalit cause while they themselves are unleashing terror in Kerala,” said a RSS insider who has been invited to the conference.
According to RSS insiders, the idea of holding a meeting had germinated after the PM’s rallies. “Since 1970s, over 650 of our workers have lost their lives. They are being regularly intimidated but somehow the attacks have skipped the nation’s attention. Taking advantage of this, the Left parties there are playing the victim card,” they said.
There would also be a sizeable number of workers from Kannur, which is the heartland of political violence. This district has registered repeated attacks between the RSS activists and the CPI(M) cadres in recent times.