BJP State president K. Surendran on Monday interpreted Excise Minister M.V. Govindan's statement that majoritarian zealotry was more dangerous than minority extremism as the LDF government's tacit signal of protection to "anti-national" outfits.
Mr. Surendran said Mr. Govindan had green-lighted the Popular Front of India (PFI) move to reshape Kerala into another Kashmir. The Minister's words reflected the LDF's willingness to sacrifice public peace and secularism at the altar of political expediency, he said.
The war of words between the CPI(M) and the BJP had erupted in the wake of the tit-for-tat killings of a PFI activist and a RSS worker in Palakkad within 24 hours.
