Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has warned society against revanchist forces which, he claims, restlessly sought to retard Kerala’s social progress by attempting to reinstate the dehumanising caste system in new and subtle forms, stressing superstition over science, instilling religious intolerance, often subliminally, and injecting long discarded regressive beliefs into society’s mainstream.
Mr. Vijayan used the 169th birth anniversary celebrations of Sree Narayana Guru at Chempazhanthy in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday to broadcast the ruling Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) political message that humanism, scientific temper and secularism were at peril in modern India and Kerala was no exception.
