NSS unimpressed by LDF overtures
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The Nair Service Society (NSS) has excoriated the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities’s bid to lionise its founder Mannathu Padmanabhan to curry favour together with his followers and later conspiring to blot out the renaissance chief’s indelible social legacy when its political goal was served.
NSS normal secretary G. Sukumaran Nair on Saturday sharply reacted to a current article in CPI(M) newspaper Deshabhimani hailing Mannam’s main function in Kerala’s historic struggles in opposition to caste discrimination, brahminical hegemony, superstition and untouchability.
The author stated political variations with Mannam aside, his function as one of many foremost renaissance leaders in Kerala was indeniable. Mr. Nair stated Mannam led the peaceable protest to permit untouchables into Guruvayur temple within the Nineteen Thirties. However, the LDF authorities conveniently forgot Mannam’s half within the historic wrestle when it inaugurated a monument to commemorate the Guruvayur Satygaraham in 2018.
Mannam’s followers have seen by means of the Janus-faced coverage of the LDF. They have additionally recognised the deep-rooted “political animosity” that motivated such brazen denial of Mannam’s bequest to Kerala society.
NSS normal secretary stated the academic establishments construct by Mannam had served all sections of society. He had spearheaded the Vaikom Satyagraha and fought in opposition to social evils.
The LDF had made a number of overtures to the NSS within the run-up to the Assembly election. It had prolonged 10% reservation in authorities jobs for economically deprived individuals from socially and educationally privileged ahead communities.
More not too long ago, the LDF heeded to the NSS’s demand to withdraw instances in opposition to those that participated in peaceable protests in opposition to the enactment of the Supreme Court’s majority choice in 2018, permitting girls of all ages to worship on the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple. The LDF had additionally agreed to take everyone on board earlier than deciding any future plan of action on the Sabarimala difficulty.
However, the NSS management appeared unimpressed.
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