CPM State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has said that mosques in the State are being turned into centres of communal extremists of the minority community.
Addressing a public meeting here on Monday, the CPM leader said the police had recovered blood-stained swords and long knives from the Marad Juma Masjid and it was not the first incident in the State.
Pinarayi said the police had once recovered lethal weapons from the Cherumoth mosque in Nadapuram. He said a youth had been killed while making bombs in a mosque in Kuttiyadi.
The CPM leader said mosques in the State which were once managed by elderly people are now in the hands of extremist elements.
According to Pinarayi Vijayan, the proposed political outfit being formed by the SNDP Yogam would not be able to make any influence in the State.
The CPM leader said the 'SNDP party' would turn out to be a flop. He said the SNDP move was part of the BJP efforts to come to power in the State by aligning with caste-based organisations. But it would not succeed in Kerala here, as there is an enlightened and progressive electorate here.
Pinarayi Vijayan said the BJP was trying to create communal problems in states like Gujarat to win the next Lok Sabha election in order to retain its power at the Centre.
He said the CPM was opposed to both the majority and minority communalism on equal terms.
The CPM leader said that Prime Minister Vajpayee was speaking in the voice of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. "The VHP can say anything, but the Prime Minister of the country has to keep some restraint," he said.
CPM district secretary K Kunhiraman
presided over the meeting.