Vijayan had said at an event yesterday that the RSS wanted to weaken the states. They were encroaching on federalism and trying to impose a unitary structure of "Hindi, Hindu and Hindusthan", he alleged.
"I feel pity for his (Vijayan) ignorance, he has no knowledge about the facts. The RSS respects all languages and for us all languages are mother languages and national languages," said Nandakumar, the national convenor of Prajna Pravah, an RSS think-tank.
"He is saying all these things to deflect the attention from violence against the RSS workers in the state sponsored by the ruling CPI(M) government," Nandakumar alleged.
There has been a surge in incidents of violence involving both the RSS and the CPI(M) in the last few months.
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