At a special sitting on Monday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Independence, the Kerala Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a resolution underscoring the need to safeguard the secular and democratic credentials of the country and resist attempts by forces that were not part of the freedom struggle to polarise the people.
Every member of the State Assembly vows to be part of this resistance, the resolution, read out by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at the end of a three-hour session and passed by the ruling CPI(M)-led LDF and the Opposition Congress-led UDF members, said.
''The Kerala Assembly asserts that it was the sublime concept of unity in diversity that endowed the anti-imperialist struggles in India with the strength to end foreign rule. The Assembly also declares that, today, moves are afoot all over the country against such ideals, and that forces which did not join the fight to liberate the nation are behind the attempts to divide the people and destroy their unity. This House feels it is imperative that such actions are resisted and defeated for the continuation of India as a democratic and secular republic,'' the resolution said.
