Mangaluru : The Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan  gave communal harmony speech at Karavali Souhardha Rally a scheduled event of CPI (M) party held at Neharu Maidan on Saturday, February 25.

In a strong reply to the Sangh Parivar forces ever worked to unite the people of our country, they are trying to divide the people creating communal violence”. The BJP and Sangh Parivar has the habit of killing their own people,” Kerala chief minister alleged.

I am not airdropped to the post of Kerala chief minister, elected candidate by the people. Nobody will stop me to entier India,” he told a cheering crowd.

He said the RSS, which had threatened to stop his visit, should have remembered his past before issuing such threats.

“As a student of Brennen College (in Thalassery), I had walked amid dagger-weilding RSS men. They could not even touch me then,” an emotionally charged Pinarayi said at the end of his speech that targeted the Hindutva outfit.

Recollecting the incident in which he was stopped from attending an event in Bhopal recently, Pinarayi said he chose to stay away from that meet since the government and the police there had asked him to do so. “I chose to abide by the request of the government there as the chief minister of another state. Nobody will be able to stop Pinarayi Vijayan when he is not a chief minister,” he told a cheering crowd.

He thanked the Karnataka government and media for facilitating his visit to the state.

Citing incidents from history, Pinarayi said the RSS has been following the fascist policies of Hitler and Mussolini.

Pinarayi said the RSS had played no role in the freedom struggle. “The RSS had always believed in dividing people on communal grounds. Just like Hitler eliminated Jews and communists, the RSS has been targeting the minorities and communists in India,” Pinarayi told the ‘Aikyatha Rally’ (Rally for Harmony).

The chief minister’s visit to the neighboring state had ignited a controversy after Sangh Parivar outfits staged protests. The right wing groupings have called for a hartal against his visit in Mangaluru on Saturday.

Perior the programme the Karavali Communal Harmony Rally was flagged off at Ambedkar Circle.

Sunil Kumar Bajal welcomed the gathering. Former MLA and State Secretary of CPI (M) comrade J Balakrishna Shetty presided over the programme.

The police imposed section 144 in Mangalore Commissionerate limits from 6 pm of February 24 to 6 am of February 26 to restrict bandh, hartal and any other processions.