KOZHIKODE: Targeting Kerala’s Left government for allegedly trying to whitewash the 1921 Moplah rebellion by celebrating it as a “communist revolution”, Ram Madhav on Friday said that the incident was in a way the first manifestation of Talibani mindset in India.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the year-long ‘Mapilla (Moplah) Riots Martyrs Remembrance programme at Kozhikode on Thursday, he said, “Taliban isn’t just a terror outfit, it’s a mindset. Born out of fundamentalists, radicalists and Islamist ideas. Its victims are around the world even in Muslim countries. One of the worst victims of such a mindset has been Indian. This mindset was responsible for the partition of our country in 1947.”
“In the last century, the first society to be subjected to this kind of mindset was none other than Kerala. The Moplah rebellion was in a way the first manifestation of Talibani mindset in India,” he added.
Madhav said as there were no modern means of communication in 1921 but an attempt to hide the details of the revolt, it was projected as the agitation against the British or the agrarian uprising. “Those who had known what would have happened were shocked. Gandhiji and Ambedkar wrote about it. Gandhiji had written that how can my own Muslim brother can become like this,” he said.
“As there was no way for larger countries and the world to know about those atrocities, attempts were made to conceal and whitewash them. It was projected as it was a movement against the British or it was a communist revolution against ‘zamindars’,” said Madhav.
“We have a Communist government here in Kerala. They are trying to project it (Moplah rebellion) as a movement against the British or a communist revolution against the bourgeois or zamindars. They want to celebrate it in a totally different manner. They want movies to be made on the ‘heroism’ of the rebellion leaders. The Leftist liberal cabal is trying to whitewash it (Moplah rebellion),” he said.