Communist Party of India (Marxist) Politburo member A Vijayaraghavan on Saturday alleged that a “communal Muslim alliance” was behind the victory of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.
Addressing the CPI(M) Wayanad district convention at Sultan Bathery, Vijayaraghavan said: “Two people have left from Wayanad (Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi). With whose help? With the strong support of the communal Muslim alliance. Without their support, Rahul Gandhi would have been able to reach Delhi. He is the opposition. The party leader is the worst among the minorities in the front and back row of Priyanka Gandhi’s rally “Extremist elements were among them. They were with the Congress leadership. Without the support of the communal Muslim alliance, would Rahul Gandhi have reached Delhi,” he said.
Vijayaraghavan’s attack on the Congress for associating the party with Muslim organizations is in line with the line adopted by the party after the April 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The CPI(M) tried to woo the Muslim vote bank in Kerala by highlighting the Citizenship Amendment Act and Palestine issues in the Lok Sabha elections this April, but the election results saw Hindu voters abandon the CPI(M)-led LDF.
Since then, the CPI(M) has been trying to win back the Hindu vote.
This view of the CPI(M) was evident in the recent by-elections to the Lok Sabha constituencies of Palakkad, Chelakkara and Wayanad, where the CPI(M) attacked Muslim political organisations. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan referred to IUML state president Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal as a “Jamaat-e-Islami worker” and said that Jamaat-e-Islami stood for “Islamic rule” and that “extremists” called the “militant section” “Jamaat-e-Islami”. A-Islami activist”. To gain influence in the Indian Union Muslim League. The IUML is part of the Congress-led United Democratic Front in Kerala and is a constituent of the Bharat Bloc at the national level.
Just ahead of the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat last month, Vijayan had tried to link Jamaat-e-Islami with the Congress, saying that Priyanka, the current MP, was contesting the elections with the support of Jamaat-e-Islami, which he said had this vision. “Not in favor of a democratic system”.
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