Marad memories haunt Hindus in Kerala

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Marad memories haunt Hindus in Kerala
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By S. Chandrasekhar

The Justice has called for a detailed probe by a Special Investigation Team into the role of several fundamental and extremist organisations like Muslim League and NDF. The report has opined that Muslim League Leader and close confidant of IUML strong man Kunjalikutty, Mayin Haji had prior knowledge of the conspiracy that led to the murder.


The report was handed over to him two months back, but Chandy says that he has had no time to go through the report and that it should be tabled in the assembly before making it public. Chandy’s remarks are a challenge to the Hindus of Kerala.

May 2, 2003 is a day that no self-respecting and devout Hindu can ever erase from his mind. The day when eight Hindu fishermen were brutally murdered, women and children assaulted and humiliated and houses, boats and property worth lakhs destroyed in the fishing hamlet of MARAD near Kozhikode by jehadi extremists.


Massive agitation were organised throughout Kerala by RSS demanding CBI probe into the massacre and adequate compensation for the nears of the victims. After several rounds of discussions between the then Chief Minister A.K. Antony and RSS/BJP leaders a compromise formula was arrived. The Government announced a judicial probe by Thomas P. Joseph to go into all aspects of the massacre and also to probe the role of fundamentalists and extremist organisations. Also compensation of Rs.10 lakhs for dependents of the murdered, jobs for widowed women, repair of houses, replacement of boats, setting up of police station at MARAD etc. were also announced and later implemented.


Based on media reports, the Justice Thomas P. Joseph Commission has come down heavily on the UDF Government for not ordering a CBI probe into the massacre. The Justice has called for a detailed probe by a Special Investigation Team into the role of several fundamental and extremist organisations like Muslim League and NDF. The report has opined that Muslim League leader and close confidant of IUML strong man Kunjalikutty, Mayin Haji had prior knowledge of the conspiracy that led to the murder. The probe panel says that the role of the Crime Branch was eliminating key persons and organisations from the gambit of the probe and save them. Moreover, the act of the then District Collector T.O. Sooraj, a Muslim, in allowing Muslim League leader and now MoS in Union Cabinet, E. Ahmed, to offer namaz at the Marad mosque (which was sealed due to discovery of massive quantity of arms and weapons) at the period of an explosive situation has come in for criticism in the report. Finally the Commission says that the adamant role of the government not to go in for CBI probe is mysterious and its grounds flimsy.


Although the report was handed over to him two months back, but Chandy says that he has had no time to go through the report and that it should be tabled in the assembly before making it public. Chandy’s remarks are a challenge to the Hindus of Kerala, since hardly a month back; a special session of the Kerala Assembly was convened to pass an unanimous resolution by both LDF and UDF members calling upon Tamilnadu Government to release Madhani who is lodged in Coimbatore Jail. For Madhani assembly can be convened, for Marad. No. What double face, Chandy?


Both the A.K. Antony Government and the Oommen Government want to protect the Muslim League, a major partner in the ruling UDF and its new ally jehadi NDF.


Oommen Chandy wants to scuttle and derail any investigation into ‘MARAD’ massacre at any cost since his brief is to protect Muslim League, NDF, Mayin Haji and ultimately Kunjalikutty at any cost, since without Muslim support he cannot rule.


The state BJP president, P.S. Sreedharan Pillai, has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Kerala High Court seeking directions to the state Government to release to the public the panel report and order CBI probe into the massacre and its conspiracy.


The Sabarimala Temple of Lord Ayyappa, to which crores of people from all the globe come, is a thorn in the eye of the Christian Community. They cannot tolerate a casteless consolidation of Hindus in the name of Lord Ayyappa since their aim is maximum conversion of the backward Hindus. In the mid eighties they planted a cross in Nilakkel, which is the base camp of Sabarimala pilgrims. Later due to massive agitations by RSS and other Hindu organisations it was removed. Harassment of pilgrims from other states by Christians is going on unabated.


The government at the instance of the Christian Church, Christian Land lobby, Christian encroachers and Ganja cultivators has revoked its earlier order of allotting 313 acres of revenue land to the forest department at Kambakkallu in lieu of forest department land given to Sabarimala temple for its development. Thus by revoking its earlier order the Oommen Chandy Government has succumbed to Christian pressure groups who want to torpedo Sabarimala development at any cost. It was this same Oommen Chandy who tried to prevent Mata Amritanandamayi from building homes for Tsunami affected, at the instance of church.


The BJP has demanded a Judicial Investigation into the moves to thwart Sabarimala development. The Hindu Aikya Vedi and VHP state Organising Secretary Kummanam Rajasekharan have also announced massive agitations if the 313 acres of land at Kambakkallu is not handed over to the forest department.