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NDF welcomes CM's statement
By Our Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 22. The National Development Front (NDF) has welcomed the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony's statement that workers of the BJP, CPI(M), Congress and the Muslim League were also involved in the violent incidents in Marad and Pathanamthitta.
In a statement here today, the NDF general secretary, Abdul Majeed Faizy, said the Chief Minister's stand was welcome because it was a departure from the usual practice of political leaders defending their cadres for narrow political interests. He hoped that at least now everybody would desist from blaming the NDF for every small and big crime taking place in the State.
Mr. Faizy said some of the errors in the Chief Minister's statement indicated that he was being misled by a section of the police top brass. Not a single NDF activist had been arrested in connection with the Marad incidents. The NDF has no unit in the locality. Although the Chief Minister had claimed that 84 NDF-PDP activists had been arrested, only three NDF activists, including the division convener, had been arrested. Otherwise, the police and critics would have to admit that every Muslim youth in Pathanamthitta town is an NDF activist.
He said every person in the locality would agree that not a single NDF worker had participated in the violence in Pathanamthitta. He also wanted to know why there should be a Crime Branch inquiry if the police were certain that the violence at Pathanamthitta and Marad was carried out by NDF activists. What the Government must do is to order a judicial inquiry to identify the culprits, he added.
Mr. Faizy said the violence was the result of provocations by the RSS and the violence at Marad was carried out by the RSS. The NDF was the only organisation resisting the communal fascism of RSS. Once the NDF's path was blocked, RSS' growth would become smooth. Those who speak against NDF were persons who endorse the RSS agenda, he said.
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