Congress, CPI(M) leaders slam the nationwide award for Kerala Story

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Congress have condemned the nationwide award for #Kerala Story, an allegedly Islamophobic film, which purportedly broadcasts a detrimental depiction of #Kerala as a fertile floor for radical Islamists to trick Hindu ladies into marriage for recruitment to the jihadist trigger.

Culture Minister #Saji Cherian termed the award the most recent salvo within the socio-economic and cultural warfare the #Sangh Parivar-backed Central Government has unleashed towards secular and progressive #Kerala.

“The #Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities on the Centre has strangulated #Kerala financially. It has unleashed Governors to scuttle the autonomy of State-funded varsities to saffronise #Kerala’s secular and progressive greater schooling system. Now the BJP has subverted the nationwide movie awards to malign #Kerala,” he mentioned. 

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Mr. Cherian mentioned the BJP-ruled States gave tax breaks to the film, which he said claimed malevolently that hundreds of Hindu ladies in #Kerala fell prey to “Love Jihad.”

He mentioned the #Sangh Parivar had injected the phrase into Hindu majoritarian rhetoric to falsely accuse Muslim youth of tricking Hindu ladies into marriage for conversion to Islam and subsequent radicalisation to fill the ranks of Islamist fighters in Syria and Yemen. 

Finance Minister Ok.N. Balagopal mentioned compelled conversion conspiracy theories propagated by the armada of Hindu rightwing teams have triggered an uptick in assaults on minorities in BJP-ruled States.

“We noticed in Chhattisgarh how the Bajrang Dal lynch mob ambushed two #Kerala nuns on the false cost of spiriting out tribal ladies to Agra for conversion to Christianity. The BJP authorities within the State performed second fiddle to the conspiracists. It arrested and incarcerated the nuns on fees of human trafficking,” Mr. Balagopal mentioned.

Excise Minister M.B. Rajesh said that the BJP had perverted the nationwide movie awards to demonise #Kerala. He mentioned the BJP had repeatedly leaned on the ill-made film’s false and malicious narrative to sow communal divisions within the State.

All India Congress Committee (AICC) basic secretary (Organisation), Ok.C. Venugopal, MP, mentioned the film’s distorted messaging has helped Hindu rightwing teams to whip up hate towards minorities in BJP-ruled States and sow communal divisions in #Kerala. “The nationwide award for the xenophobic film is the BJP’s payback to secular #Kerala for shutting the door on the #Sangh Parivar,” he mentioned.