UDF government advancing RSS agenda, defends KIIFB projects in Kannur: Pinarayi Vijayan

File photo of former Keralam Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. | Photo Credit: PTI

Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member and Opposition leader in the Keralam Assembly Pinarayi Vijayan accused the Congress-led United Democratic Front government of advancing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) agenda through education policies, university appointments, and development decisions.

He also defended KIIFB-funded projects in Kannur accusing the government of misrepresenting land acquisition and undermining the State’s overall development.

Speaking at an extended district committee meeting of the CPI(M) in Kannur on Sunday (October 18, 2026), he said the CPI(M) was playing a significant role in national politics by uniting democratic and secular forces against what he described as the RSS agenda pursued by the BJP led Union government.

He criticised Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged threats to voting rights and called for united resistance by democratic and secular forces.

“The BJP government is implementing the RSS agenda on a massive scale,” Vijayan alleged, arguing that the Centre’s domestic and foreign policies undermined India’s shared value, democracy and secularism.

“The beauty of democracy lies in the freedom to express different opinions,” he said, accusing the government of seeking to suppress dissent.

Mr. Vijayan alleged that the Citizenship Amendment Act promoted religion-based citizenship and said the LDF government had opposed implementing a National Register of Citizens in Kerala.