Pinarayi takes on Antony

Hitting back at Defence Minister A K Antony for asserting that Congress victory in Lok Sabha polls was essential to safeguard national values like secularism, Kerala CPI(M) today said Congress could not make such a claim as its history had been replete with instances of compromises with communal forces.
"As a Congress leader, Antony cannot make such a claim as his party has often compromised with communalism and communal forces," CPI(M) Kerala unit secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, who is leading the party's "Kerala raksha march", told reporters at Karunagapally near here.
He was referring to Antony's call to Congress workers to take the coming Lok Sabha polls as a "Kurukshetra war" to safeguard the national values and heritage.

The CPI(M) leader said the Babri Masjid was demolished by communal forces when the Congress government headed by late P V Narasimha Rao was in power at the Centre.
Vijayan claimed there were also instances of Congress causing harm to the democracy and federal system of the nation.