In a Facebook post, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has hit out RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for alleging that his government was helping anti-nationals.

Vijayan said that such a remark was nothing but the Sangh's oft-used formula to pit people against one another. "But no communal, seditious or anti-national individual or organisation can provoke Keralites, who have rejected these outfits completely."

The RSS chief should clarify what he means by saying that the Kerala government is supporting anti-national forces for narrow political interests. "I understand that Bhagwatji is speaking such utter nonsense because his outfit failed to poison the minds of Keralites and let the BJP make narrow political gains."

We all know the history and geography of RSS' nationalism, their activities and propaganda against the secular character of the Indian Constitution. Kerala need not be taught by the head of an outfit, which was subservient to the British, with its top brass prohibiting participation in mass movements. Kerala has a unique distinction of being the homeland of Indians, who revolted against the British rulers even before the first freedom struggle of 1857.

RSS got a foothold in many states by spreading terrorism in the name of religion, making communally offensive comments and attacking minorities, but the Left-led secular and democratic political practices in Kerala have strengthened people's confidence to resist all such attacks unleashed by the RSS.

Dear Shri Bhagwat, you need not worry about Kerala and its people-friendly secular-democratic government. We need no lessons from you or RSS. Let the RSS concentrate on issues reported in the media and social media regarding violence related to communal polarisation, cow vigilantism, atrocities against minorities, Dalits and women in various BJP-ruled states.

The Left Democratic Front government came to power with the mission of building a corruption-free, development-driven and a secular new Kerala. (#NAVAKERALAM) Our government will deal strictly with any false propaganda by anyone who tried to destroy the secular fabric of Kerala, whosoever that person be.

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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has hit out RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in a Facebook post for alleging that his government was helping anti-nationals, calling the Sangh's ideology divisive.