Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has accused the Sangh Parivar forces of attempting to drive a wedge between Christian and Muslim communities to splinter minority vote and destroy their cohesion against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ‘divisive agenda.’
Interacting with the media after chairing the party’s State committee meeting at AKG Centre on Sunday, Mr. Balakrishnan said Islamist outfits such as the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and Jamaat-e-Islami’s Welfare Party of India (WPI) aided the BJP’s cause by championing a stubbornly insular view of their faith and ‘othering’ those who adhere to a different belief system.
