Nadapuram- the truth!

On the basis of last Nadapuram incident I have been compelled to google about the CPI(M) attitude towards the Minorities especially Muslims. It's true, I had a soft corner towards Left,now I can't say because now a days it become difficult to differentiate between Left and right ideologies on issues like minorities, development, environmental issues and a lot more. keeping that in mind,Are they really in favour of minorities? I personally believe that No, Whenever minorities are in trouble the left leaders and especially CPI(m) came forward to help in the Center, that’s true, but when we think about these guys in their Party villages or where they have strong hold what is their attitude? Same as in center or any change?


As a native I have seen a lot of atrocities by CPI(M) party men against muslims here in and around Nadapuram from coconut plucker to senior party leaders. They are carrying an attitude that have forced many to leave their residence and lands. Do you know why BJP or Sang Parivar don’t have a hold in this region? I personally feel These CPI(M) activists are doing better job here than Sangh parivar doing any where else in the country, Especially The A Kanaran (A famous Comrade from Nadapuram of CPI(M))Style communism. Nadapuram in Kozhicode district borders with neighbouring Kannur district, the focal centre of unabated CPM violence for the past 15 years. Justifying its role in Kannur violence, the CPM used to claim that they were protecting the Muslim minorities from Sangh Parivar fascist threat. However, the CPM-RSS violence in Kannur was limited to only murders and retaliatory killings with either side refraining from attacking houses, looting, arson, and raping women. Nadapuram, on the other hand, had witnessed all these. That majority of the victims in Nadapuram were Muslims irrespective of party affiliations, and all the major culprits were Hindus belonging to CPM and DYFI itself paints an altogether different picture unknown in Kerala. Although majority of the Muslim victims were sympathizers of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the fact that Muslims supporting even CPM and other LDF parties like Janata Dal and NCP were not spared from attacks speaks volumes of the blind anti-Muslim psyche deep-rootedly erected among the CPM rank and file in and around Nadapuram area.[Mukundan C Menon article on Milli Gazatte].


And, this has its own history. Traditionally, leading Muslims in Nadapuram were landlords supporting IUML while the labourers were mostly backward Thiyyas who aligned with CPM and CPI. The class animosity projected by CPM had, therefore, been always directed against individual Muslim landlords. CPM’s taking lead role to oppose the introduction of Muslim Personal Law in mid-1980s had sharpened the Hindu-Muslim divide in Nadapuram between CPM and IUML. Nadapuram also witnessed prolonged agitations by CPM, including indefinite sit-in agitations in front of Muslim houses, in the name of seeking alimony to estranged wives of some individual Muslims in the area. Demands of CPM controlled-labour wing on behalf of coconut pluckers also led to disputes with individual Muslim landlords. Because of the Gulf boom, practically every house in Nadapuram has somebody working in Middle-East, which kept-up their financial resources.


On the other hand, because of the recent recession in agriculture and declined price of coconuts, the labourers were not getting enough work and wages. This economic recession had adversely affected the local CPM coffins. It spells the motivation for the widespread looting during the violence. Since male members are mostly away, most of the houses have only women, children or old-aged persons to guard their wealth and property. Evidently, the attackers utilised this vulnerability to their maximum advantage to indulge in atrocities ranging from looting to rape. And these incidents should be an eye opener to the central leaders of these political parties and also those muslim organizations they are giving blind support to these parties in elections.