Overview
- Pinarayi Vijayan made the charge in a Jan. 16 address concluding the Kerala Yatra, a monthlong outreach that began in Kasaragod.
- He cited the Citizenship Amendment Act and a new Waqf law along with hijab bans and cuts to minority scholarships as evidence of a pattern.
- He condemned "bulldozer justice" and alleged detention camps in several northern states, calling such steps discriminatory.
- He pointed to disputes over mosques, including Gyanvapi in Varanasi and cases in Madurai, as efforts to communalise public life.
- He vowed Kerala would not allow religion-based detention facilities and urged combating communalism by strengthening secularism, with Opposition leader V D Satheesan also backing a firm secular stance.