A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the CPI(M)-led government in Kerala over its stand on the Sabarimala issue, the left party hit back on Wednesday, saying the prime minister is speaking like an RSS pracharak.
“This statement (of the prime minister) is atrocious and highly condemnable. He is admonishing an elected Government for implementing the judgement of the Supreme Court,” said a statement issued by the party Politburo.
Addressing a gathering of BJP workers in Kollam district on Tuesday, Modi had said the conduct of Kerala government in the Sabarimala issue would go down in the history as one of the "most shameful behaviours" by any party and government.
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“Mr. Modi forgot that he had taken oath on the Constitution of India and he spoke as an RSS pracharak not as the prime minister. His statement constitutes a direct assault on the Indian Constitution and the Supreme Court,” the Politburo said in its statement.
It further said the prime minister's statement has dangerous implications for the future “as it means that any Supreme Court judgement which does not suit the interests of the BJP and RSS will be defied and a Government seeking to implement it will be attacked by them”.
In the history of independent India this is an unprecedented situation, it added.
Kerala has been witnessing widespread protests ever since a Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on September 28 lifted a ban on women aged between 10 and 50 from entering the famous hill shrine. The state government has maintained that it is duty-bound to implement the top court verdict.
Modi's speech in Kollam was keenly looked at as the Union government has been urged by various outfits of devotees to bring an ordinance to nullify the verdict. However, neither the Centre nor the BJP has so far given any hints of such ordinance.
"We know that the communists do not respect the Indian history, culture and spirituality but nobody imagined they would have such hatred," Modi had said in his speech.
