Thiruvananthapuram: The office of the Governor was “being pitted against the governments” in non-BJP ruled states in matters involving universities in order to implement BJP-RSS agenda of converting India into a “fascistic Hindutva rashtra” by controlling education and consciousness of the youth, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a protest organised at the Raj Bhavan here against recent actions of Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, who is presently in the national capital, Yechury said the office of the Governor “has been reduced to advancing the political objective of the central government and the ruling BJP.
“This a peculiar and unhealthy situation for Indian democracy,” Yechury said at the protest outside the Raj Bhavan, where thousands had turned up, but was not attended by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan or other ministers of his cabinet.
The CPI(M) general secretary said “this kind of conflict situation was not only happening in Kerala”, but in all other non-BJP ruled states.
The agitation began in the morning with marches by thousands of Left supporters from various parts of the state capital to the Raj Bhavan, the office-cum-residence of the Governor, where Yechury inaugurated the protest.
In his inaugural address, the CPI(M) general secretary said, “There is a situation where the office of the Governor is pitted against the state governments, the acts of the state government regarding state universities and against the VCs appointed in accordance with the law adopted by the legislative assemblies.
“This matter of controlling education is an important aspect of the BJP-RSS’ political design to convert this secular democratic India into a fascistic Hindutva rashtra of their liking and for that they require to control education and the consciousness of our youth.”
Yechury said that BJP and RSS want “mind control”
“They do not want creativity. They want people to think in a backward obscurantist manner, victims of superstition and blind faith, so that their project of a Fascistic Hindutva rashtra can succeed.
Kerala’s higher education is the obstacle to it and so that is why they are attacking it.
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