Bharatiya Janata Party state Vice President Shobha Surendran on Friday alleged that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is trying to appease the fundamentalists by keeping silent on the action of the Kerala cleric who scolded the organisers of a students’ felicitation ceremony for inviting a girl student on stage.
Shobha said that people were expecting a statement from the CM on the action of the cleric, but the CM chose to keep quiet on the matter despite the reactions of the Governor and others. “People thought that there would be a statement from the Chief Minister of Kerala on this subject. Despite the reactions of the Governor of Kerala and others on this issue, the Chief Minister of Kerala went ahead appeasing the fundamentalists. He was silent. He thinks that the minds of all Muslims are the same as religious fundamentalists in Kerala. That’s stupid thinking,” said Shobha.